Service no. 42878
Sapper, Royal Engineers, 78th Field Coy.
Killed in action on 25 March 1918, aged about 22
Born in Clapham; lived in Clapham; enlisted in London
CWGC: " Son of Leopold Henry and Augusta Serin, of 56, The Chase, Clapham Common, Clapham, London."
Remembered at Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Harry Clement Serin (listed as Harry C. Serin on the census but as Clement Serin on the memorial) was a 15-year-old schoolboy living with his parents at 18 Rectory Grove, Clapham. His father, Leopold H. Serin, 63, was a retired cook, born in France but a naturalised British Subject; his mother, Augusta Serin, 42, was from Woodchester, Gloucestershire. There were five children (all were born in Clapham):
William H. Serin, 17, a clerk in the office of a wine bottler
Harry C. Serin, 15
Violet O. Serin, 13
Enid M. Serin, 11
Eric G. Serin, 9