Barnard Aubrey CLAPHAM

Commemorated:
1. Grave:	Gaza War Cemetery	XXVI. C. 13.
2. Book:	The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918	Pg.119
3. Memorial:	The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour	42B GQS

Awards & Titles:

Family :

Son of Alfred Henry and Elizabeth Clapham, of Woodford Bridge, Essex.

Service Life:

Campaigns:

The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Unit / Ship / Est.: 4th Battalion The Essex Regiment

1/4th Battalion August 1914 : in Brentwood. Part of Essex Brigade in East Anglian Division. Moved to Norwich in late 1914 and on to Colchester in April 1915. May 1915 : formation became 161st Brigade in 54th (East Anglian) Division. Moved late in the month to St Albans. 21 July 1915 : sailed from Devonport for Gallipoli, going via Lemnos. Landed at Suvla bay 12 August 1915. 4 December 1915 : evacuated from Gallipoli and moved to Mudros, going on to Alexandria 17 December 1915. Remained in Egypt/Palestine theatre thereafter.

Action : Palestine

Palestine is a generic term to cover actions in the region now consisting of Sinai, Israel, Jordan, Syria and Aden and involved operations against the Turks. Once the security of the Suez Canal was assured in 1915 the focus shifted to the area now within the post 1967 borders of Israel. In 1917 there were three battles at Gaza, which enabled the capture of Jerusalem in December. In 1918 the campaign continued north into the Jordan Valley then towards Damascus. The Armistice with Turkey was signed on the 31st October 1918.

CLAPHAM, Barnard Aubrey, Lieutenant, 1/4 Essex Regiment. 4th son of the late Alfred Henry Clapham, of Thurlby, Woodford Bridge, Essex. Born Buckhurst Hill Essex 1878 ; Educated Haileybury, and Worcester College. Oxford: He was a Solicitor and joined the Public Schools Battn. of the Middlesex Regiment on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914. He obtained a Commission in the Essex Regt on 29 Oct 1914. He was for a time in command of the 2/4th Battalion in England holding the rank of Captain. He served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Egypt and Palestine from March, 1916, and died at a Field Ambulance 27 March, 1917, from wounds received in action at the Battle of Gaza the previous day. The Masonic Roll of Honour 1921 lists him in error as a Captain.

Masonic :

Type	Lodge Name and No.	Province/District :
Mother :	Sir Francis Drake No. 2649 E.C.	Devonshire

Initiated	Passed	Raised
11th November 1908	9th December 1908	13th January 1909

He was the Senior Warden in his lodge.

Discrepancies (Require checks, clarity or further research) :

Sources; http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/issues/28954/supplements/8742/page.pdf

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The (UK) National Archives
Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
Researcher : Bruce Littley

Last Updated: 2017-05-12 13:18:51

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