STAY, Clement Arthur

Credit: CWGC

Private

1st Battalion

Hampshire Regiment

Clement was born 1895 in Carisbrooke to Clement & Emma (nee KIMBER) STAY.

Clement Died, aged 23, from heart failure as a complication of influenza whilst a German prisoner of war on the 5th of November 1918. & initially Clement was buried by the Germans in Scherfede Cemetery. His body was later exhumed & reburied in the Niederzwehren Cemetery in Germany on the 26th of November 1923. He rests beneath a Commission Headstone alongside 1,796 of his First World War comrades.

Clement is also remembered on the Carisbrooke War Memorial.

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CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.