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Arthur George Clifton
Bedfordshire Regiment

Son of Mr Samuel & Mrs Elizabeth Clifton

Aged 24 years

Died 2nd March 1921

Commemorated in Rushden Cemetery
Grave C.337


 Gravestone C.337
The family were living in Glassbrook Road in 1901. The parents were born at Earls Barton, as was Arthur George. He was severely wounded at Trones Wood on 11th July 1916, and was invalided out of the army.

He died on 2nd March 1921 and was buried three days later in Rushden Cemetery.

Brother of John Henry Clifton
Rushden Echo, 21st July 1916, transcribed by Kay Collins

Rushden Man Loses His Hand
Pte. Arthur G. Clifton – In Hospital at Oxford

Mr. and Mrs. S. Clifton, 43 Victoria-road, Rushden, have received news that their son, Pte. Arthur G. Clifton, 25707 Beds. Regt., has been wounded in action. In a letter received from him yesterday it was gathered that he is in the 3rd Southern General Hospital at oxford, and that he has lost his left hand. Pte. Clifton went out to France at the beginning of June this year, and before he joined the Army he was a clicker in the employ of Messrs. Jaques and Clark, Rushden. In a letter he says: “I have lost my watch and my money, but I do not mind so long as I was not lost myself.”

He has two brothers in the Army, one, Sam Clifton, being a First-Class Machine Gunner in a machine gun section, now serving in Egypt, and the other, Driver Jack Clifton, is with the R.F.A. in Salonika.


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