Clifford Williams

Clifford was Christened Thomas Clifford Williams and was one of five children of Thomas and Jane Williams of George Street, Horbury, in St Mary’s parish. He was born about 1893 in Horbury and in 1901 his father worked steam engine fitter.

Thomas enlisted in Wakefield, joining the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (Service number 27040). He later transferred to the Tank Corps and became Private 78390. He was Killed in Action on 25^th August 1918 and is remembered on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial – a very large memorial which bears the names of over 9,000 men who fell between the Somme and Loos in the period from 8 August 1918 to the date of the Armistice, and who have no known grave.