Military service
Burial/memorial information
Only son of William James and Emily Isabel Clayton, of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Military Cross, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Captain Edward Reginald Clayton
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Reginald Clayton
Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Reginald Clayton
KIA October 30, 1917, at Passchendaele.
Award: M.C. (Military Cross) for his performance at Eleu dit Leauvette.
Image cropped from a vintage outdoor group portrait of original officers of the 85th Battalion, CEF, circa October 1916-February 1917.
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Reginald Clayton
Lieut. E.R. Clayton M.C. 85th Battalion
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Reginald Clayton
In memory of the officers of the 85th Overseas Battalion Nova Scotia Highlanders who gave their lives during World War 1.
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Reginald Clayton
War Diary
In Appendix A of the 85th Battalion diary is described the battle in which Captain Clayton met his death as he led his men forward on October 30, 1917.
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Reginald Clayton
Menin Gate Memorial Panel
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Reginald Clayton
Captain Edward Reginald Clayton grave identified by Norm Christie, in Sacred Places, Volume 1 Page 198 (2011 CEF Books).
The late Richard Laughton, noting Mr Christie's work, submitted a report to CWGC, 4 October 2016, positively identifying this grave as that of Captain Edward Reginald Clayton.
Photo: 16 August 2019, CEFRG (Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group) https;//cefrg.ca
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Reginald Clayton
From the Halifax Evening Mail October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Reginald Clayton
From the Halifax Evening Mail November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Image gallery
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Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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KIA October 30, 1917, at Passchendaele. Award: M.C. (Military Cross) for his performance at Eleu dit Leauvette. Image cropped from a vintage outdoor group portrait of original officers of the 85th Battalion, CEF, circa October 1916-February 1917.
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Lieut. E.R. Clayton M.C. 85th Battalion
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In memory of the officers of the 85th Overseas Battalion Nova Scotia Highlanders who gave their lives during World War 1. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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War Diary In Appendix A of the 85th Battalion diary is described the battle in which Captain Clayton met his death as he led his men forward on October 30, 1917.
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Menin Gate Memorial Panel
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Captain Edward Reginald Clayton grave identified by Norm Christie, in Sacred Places, Volume 1 Page 198 (2011 CEF Books). The late Richard Laughton, noting Mr Christie's work, submitted a report to CWGC, 4 October 2016, positively identifying this grave as that of Captain Edward Reginald Clayton. Photo: 16 August 2019, CEFRG (Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group) https;//cefrg.ca
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From the Halifax Evening Mail October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Halifax Evening Mail November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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