BELLFIELD

Clarence Jenkinson Belfield*

Rifleman C/12432

21st Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps

Clarence Jenkinson Belfield died on Sunday 17th September 1916, aged 26 years, and was remembered on the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France.

He was born c1890 at Pleasley, Derbys, to parents John and Mary E. Belfield. John Belfield was a Farmer of 200 Acres (in 1881) who married Mary Jenkinson sometime before 1877. By 1901, Mary was widowed and living with her children in Edwinstowe.

From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – The Kings Royal Rifle Corps’

BELFIELD Clarence Jenkinson. Born Pleasley, Derbys, enlisted Mansfield (resides Newark, Derbys). 21st Bn., King's Royal Rifle Corps, Rifleman C/12432, Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 17th September 1916.

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Research by Heather Faulkes
*Both Soldiers Died and CWGC has the Belfield spelling.