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Carleton Main Clement

In memory of:

Captain Carleton Main Clement

August 19, 1917

Military Service


Age:

21

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Flying Corps

Division:

General List and 22nd. Squadron

Citation(s):

Croix de Guerre (France). Military Cross and Mentioned in despatches, twice.

Additional Information


Son of Mr. Justice W. H. P. Clement and Elsie L. Clement, of Vancouver, British Columbia

Commemorated on Page 576 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

N/A

Location:

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.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • 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
  • 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.
  • Photo of Carleton Clement– Source:  Acta Victoriana War Supplement, Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario, December 1919.
  • 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 Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Honour Roll– From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921.
  • Acta Victoriana War Supplement– 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
  • 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.

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