Hugh Guy Clutterbuck
Second Lieutenant, 2/7th Gurkas, attached 9th Gurkhas, January, 1916.
Joined Ceylon Rifles in 1913. Joined up on outbreak of war and went with Ceylon Rifles to Egypt.
Commissioned in Egypt, January, 1915. Fought in Egypt in the attack on Suez Canal; in Mesopotamia, Battles of Shaba-Rasiviyah, advance up Tigris, Sannaiyat, attempted relief of Kut, etc.
Severely wounded on the Tigris on February 22nd, 1916. Rejoined, with a bullet in his leg, April 7th. Killed in action at the Battle of Beit Ayesha, April 17th, 1916. Burial place is unknown, in a trench at Beit Ayesha.
Awarded 1914-18 Star, General Service and Victory Medals.
Source: War Records of Corsham 1914-1919
Hugh Guy Clutterbuck was born in Boyton on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire in 1893. His parents were Hugh Frank Clutterbuck and Margaret Henrietta (nee Long). He was born into a military family – a well placed and very strong military family. His father was a Colonel in the Somerset Light Infantry who served in India, France and in Palestine during WW1 and was ultimately invalided out of service in November 1917. Hugh’s grandfather was Daniel Clutterbuck who fought and was wounded during the Charge of the Light Brigade – he achieved the rank of Captain. Hugh also had an Uncle – Edmund Ricardo Clutterbuck who as a Captain of the 4th Hussars also fought in WW1. Very much a military family.
As a son in a military family Hugh would probably have had a nomadic childhood with his father serving away on active service but Corsham was certainly part of that childhood as his grandparents lived in Monk’s House in Monk’s Park when Hugh was born and later in Middlewick in Pickwick. Hugh had 5 sisters – Doreen, Marguerite, Nancy, Phylis and Marion – but in neither 1901, when Hugh was 7 or in 1911 were they all together as a family. In 1901 Hugh, Phylis and Marion were boarding in Belgrade House in Monkton Combe near Bath and by 1911 it appears that Hugh was already in the military. He gave The Dicketts in Corsham as his contact address. His mother Margaret died in 1914 before the start of WW1.
The Corsham War Records Book details that Hugh served in the Ceylon Rifles and the 2/7th Gurkhas and had achieved the rank of Second Lieutenant and served in Egypt and Mespotamia before he was killed in action on 17th April 1916 in the battle for Beit Aiessa – part of the ongoing action to relieve the sieged garrison of Kut. He is remembered at the Basra Memorial in what is now Iraq.
Source: Kevin Gaskin
Joined Ceylon Rifles in 1913. Joined up on outbreak of war and went with Ceylon Rifles to Egypt.
Commissioned in Egypt, January, 1915. Fought in Egypt in the attack on Suez Canal; in Mesopotamia, Battles of Shaba-Rasiviyah, advance up Tigris, Sannaiyat, attempted relief of Kut, etc.
Severely wounded on the Tigris on February 22nd, 1916. Rejoined, with a bullet in his leg, April 7th. Killed in action at the Battle of Beit Ayesha, April 17th, 1916. Burial place is unknown, in a trench at Beit Ayesha.
Awarded 1914-18 Star, General Service and Victory Medals.
Source: War Records of Corsham 1914-1919
Hugh Guy Clutterbuck was born in Boyton on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire in 1893. His parents were Hugh Frank Clutterbuck and Margaret Henrietta (nee Long). He was born into a military family – a well placed and very strong military family. His father was a Colonel in the Somerset Light Infantry who served in India, France and in Palestine during WW1 and was ultimately invalided out of service in November 1917. Hugh’s grandfather was Daniel Clutterbuck who fought and was wounded during the Charge of the Light Brigade – he achieved the rank of Captain. Hugh also had an Uncle – Edmund Ricardo Clutterbuck who as a Captain of the 4th Hussars also fought in WW1. Very much a military family.
As a son in a military family Hugh would probably have had a nomadic childhood with his father serving away on active service but Corsham was certainly part of that childhood as his grandparents lived in Monk’s House in Monk’s Park when Hugh was born and later in Middlewick in Pickwick. Hugh had 5 sisters – Doreen, Marguerite, Nancy, Phylis and Marion – but in neither 1901, when Hugh was 7 or in 1911 were they all together as a family. In 1901 Hugh, Phylis and Marion were boarding in Belgrade House in Monkton Combe near Bath and by 1911 it appears that Hugh was already in the military. He gave The Dicketts in Corsham as his contact address. His mother Margaret died in 1914 before the start of WW1.
The Corsham War Records Book details that Hugh served in the Ceylon Rifles and the 2/7th Gurkhas and had achieved the rank of Second Lieutenant and served in Egypt and Mespotamia before he was killed in action on 17th April 1916 in the battle for Beit Aiessa – part of the ongoing action to relieve the sieged garrison of Kut. He is remembered at the Basra Memorial in what is now Iraq.
Source: Kevin Gaskin
