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Driver Clayton Pomeroy

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Military service

Service number: 304094
Age: 18
Rank: Driver
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Field Artillery
Division: 3rd Canadian Div. Ammunition Col.
Birth: July 21, 1898 Castleton, Ontario
Enlistment: November 12, 1915 Ontario
Death: November 1, 1916 Somme, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: III. E. 21.
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Son of John Blake Pomeroy and Georgina Gertrude White of Castleton, Ontario.

Brother of Rifleman George Robert Pomery, who died as prisoner of war in Hong Kong.

Clayton served in Ontario, England and France, where he was wounded in action on 28 October 1916 and died of his wounds.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 149 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France

Contay is a village in the Department of the Somme on the main road, Amiens to Arras. The CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY lies on the left (north east) side of the road to Franvillers. There are no access problems. There is a CWGC road sign next to the church and square of the village and next to the D23, Franvillers - Corbie, sign. The distance from the CWGC sign to the Cemetery is approximately 650 metres.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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