CLAYTON, George Seth
| Service Number: | 3710 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 60th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tilbury, Essex, England, 1896 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 4 July 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Mericourt-L'Abbe Communal Cemetery Extension Grave: III. D. 13., Mericourt-L'Abbe Communal Cemetery Extension, Mericourt-L'Abbe, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 22 and the son of George and Jane Elizabeth Clayton, of Yacht Club House, Clifton Parade, Gravesend, England.
Births Sep 1896 Clayton George Seth Orsett 4a 501
Although George had been born in Tilbury, he is not commemorated locally perhaps because his parents had moved to Gravesend-across the River Thames, but other locally born casualties who fell whilst serving with Australian forces in the Great War commemorated on the Grays War Memorial are:
Henry C. Aslett
Frank [Francis] Walter Facer
William Mears
Cecil Charles Mitcham
Bertram Neal
Josiah Needham Smith
Albert Stephenson
William George King
It has to be assumed that the following locally born Australian casualties didn’t make it to any of the borough’s war memorials, possibly because there were no living relatives still around in the area when the lists were created.
Charles Culley
Jesse Humphrey
John Musgrove
Richard Turnbull
C. Webb