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|Rank=Sapper.
 
|Rank=Sapper.
 
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
 
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=Born 17/6/1913 at Portsmouth.  Mother's maiden surname Lloyd.
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|Date of birth=Born 8/12/1906 at Custom House, West Ham.  Mother's maiden surname Barrett.
|Age=75 at the time of his death.   
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|Age=69 at the time of his death.   
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Engineers - no date as yet.  Posted to 757th Field Company.  Served Normandy and North Western Europe.
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|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Engineers - 1/7/1940 at Romford.  Underwent Basic Training.  Posted to 757th Field Company.  Served Normandy and North Western Europe.
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|Company/Battery=757th Field Company.
 
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
 
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
 
|Task or role=Details awaited.
 
|Task or role=Details awaited.
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|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
 
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
 
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
 
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 1/12/1988 at Paulsgrove, PortsmouthProbate was granted at Winchester on 14/2/1989 in the sum of £89,236.
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|Died/Killed in action=Died 15/3/1976 at Thurrock, Essex.   
|Home address=Father was George Henry Clarricoates (1885 - 1914) who was a PO Stoker and died overseas,  in Chile.  Mother was Ethel Clarricoates (nee Lloyd) (1883 - 1963).  At the time of the 1939 General Register Sapper Clarricoates was lodging at 78 Havant Road, Portsmouth and working as an Upholsterer and Furniture Dealer.  He married Mabel Fannt Everett (1913 - 1983) in 1941.  According to research there were other possible candidates for later marriages but the research could not be substantiated.
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|Home address=Father was Fredrick John Clarricoates.  Mother was Mahala Charlotte Barrett.
 
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Thanks are due to Sapper Clarricoates granddaughter who helpfully corrected the genealogical information which had been collected, and which proved to be in error, due to a number of similar name combinations.

Latest revision as of 11:03, 28 January 2022

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Name Clarricoats James Henry
Army number 1885698
Rank Sapper.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards
Date of birth Born 8/12/1906 at Custom House, West Ham. Mother's maiden surname Barrett.
Age 69 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in the Royal Engineers - 1/7/1940 at Romford. Underwent Basic Training. Posted to 757th Field Company. Served Normandy and North Western Europe.
Company/Battery 757th Field Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Details awaited.
Joined Brigade Not yet known.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not so far as is known.
Prisoner of War Not so far as is known.
Died/Killed in action Died 15/3/1976 at Thurrock, Essex.
Home address Father was Fredrick John Clarricoates. Mother was Mahala Charlotte Barrett.
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Thanks are due to Sapper Clarricoates granddaughter who helpfully corrected the genealogical information which had been collected, and which proved to be in error, due to a number of similar name combinations.