259835 Sgt. Ernest A. Clayton Royal Army Medical Corps 95th Field Ambulance from:York (d.23rd April 1918) Ernest Clayton was an Ambulance Driver with 95th Field Ambulance, RAMC. He is buried in Cabaret Rouge Cemetery and my mother visited his grave a couple of weeks before she died in 1994. As a youngster he had been a choir boy in York Minster and there is a plaque in the Minster commemorating the choir boys who were killed during the 1st World War.
I have a letter dated 19 October 1923 addressed to my grandmother Mrs Frances Clayton, 23 Clarence Street, York, from the Imperial War Graves Commission advising her that the grave of her husband Ernest Clayton is in Plot 8, Row R, Grave 10., in Caberet Rouge British Cemetery. I have just found an old photograph in the family Bible which depicts some members of the 94th Field Ambulance BEF with Lt.Col Stewart (O.C). Sgt.Mjr Campbell (RAMC) Sgt. Mjr Cobley (GSC) and the Sergeants of the 94th Field Ambulance division dated th ofAugust 1916.
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