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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Flying Corps
Division:
General List and 22nd. Squadron
Enlistment:
New Westminister, British Columbia
Death:
August 19, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Mr. Justice W. H. P. Clement and Elsie L. Clement, of Vancouver, British Columbia
Additional citations
Croix de Guerre (France). Military Cross and Mentioned in despatches, twice.
Digital gallery of Captain Carleton Main Clement
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Honour Roll
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Memorial
Clement family grave marker in the Mountain View Cemetery of Vancover BC. The name of Captain Carleton Main Clement MC & C de G Who served with the 22nd Squadron R.F.C. appears on the stone as a memorial to their fallen son. Born Toronto Ontario on May 15th 1998. He came to British Columbia in 1910 He was a Lieut. with the 31st B.C. Horse Canadian Militia. He resigned his commission to enlist as a Private in the 47th Battn. C.E.F. at New Westminster BC on March 15th 1915. later in 1916 he was appointed as an officer in the Royal Flying Corps He was Killed in action Aug. 19th 1917 over Arras France at the age of 21. His body was never recovered and he has no known grave, and his name appears on the Arras Memorial. He was Posthumously awarded the Military Cross in Jan. of 1918 he was also awarded the French Croix de Guerre & Palm. -
Inscription
Close up of the Clement family grave marker in the Mountain View Cemetery of Vancover BC. The name of Captain Carleton Main Clement MC & C de G Who served with the 22nd Squadron R.F.C. appears on the stone as a memorial to their fallen son. Born Toronto Ontario on May 15th 1998. He came to British Columbia in 1910 He was a Lieut. with the 31st B.C. Horse Canadian Militia. He resigned his commission to enlist as a Private in the 47th Battn. C.E.F. at New Westminster BC on March 15th 1915. later in 1916 he was appointed as an officer in the Royal Flying Corps He was Killed in action Aug. 19th 1917 over Arras France at the age of 21. His body was never recovered and he has no known grave, and his name appears on the Arras Memorial. He was Posthumously awarded the Military Cross in Jan. of 1918 he was also awarded the French Croix de Guerre & Palm. -
Photo of Carleton Clement
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Photo of Carleton Clement
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Acta Victoriana War Supplement
Source: Acta Victoriana War Supplement, Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario, December 1919. -
Photo of Carleton Clement
Source: Acta Victoriana War Supplement, Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario, December 1919. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The names of the fallen were carved on the Memorial Screen seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of January 24, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y38uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of July 2, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y177uvic/mode/1up?view=theater -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province March 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Digital gallery of
Captain Carleton Main Clement
Digital gallery of
Captain Carleton Main Clement
Digital gallery of
Captain Carleton Main Clement
Digital gallery of
Captain Carleton Main Clement
Digital gallery of
Captain Carleton Main Clement
Digital gallery of
Captain Carleton Main Clement
Digital gallery of
Captain Carleton Main Clement
Digital gallery of
Captain Carleton Main Clement
Digital gallery of
Captain Carleton Main Clement
ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
The Arras Flying Services Memorial is in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras, near the Citadel, approximately 2 kilometres due west of the railway station.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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