VILLAR, Clement John

Ramleh War Cemetery, IsraelCredit: CWGC

Captain
8th Battalion Isle of Wight Rifles
Hampshire Regiment

Clement was born 1895 in Newport to Arthur Cornelius & Fanny (nee PEACH) VILLAR. Arthur predeceased his son & Fanny was living at 11 Hearn Street, Newport around the time of Clement’s death.

Clement worked at JS Whites in Cowes before joining the Army & was a veteran of the Gallipoli campaign & had previously been wounded in Gaza in 1917, after which he gained a commission.  Clement, aged 23, was Killed in Action on the 19th of September 1918 & is buried in the Ramlah War Cemetery in Israel beneath a Commission Headstone alongside 3,300 of his First World War comrades, 964 of whom remain unidentified.

Clement is also remembered on the Newport Borough & IW Rifles War Memorials.

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.