Canadian Virtual War Memorial

David Ward Clement

In memory of:

Air Mechanic 1st Class David Ward Clement

December 3, 1917

Military Service

Service Number:

98079

Age:

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Flying Corps

Division:

22nd Squadron

Additional Information

Son of Edwin Perry Clement and Janie E. Bowlby Clement, of Kitchener, Ontario

Commemorated on Page 576 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

AIRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

I. G. 6.

Location:

Aire is an old fortified town on the north-eastern boundary of the Department of the Pas-de-Calais. It lies in the valley of the Lys, on the road, and the canal, between St. Omer and Bethune. It is about 14 kilometres south-south-east of St. Omer. The AIRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY is 0.75 kilometres north of the town, on the road to St. Omer and the 4 British plots are on the east side. The entrance from the Communal Cemetery is by a porch on the west side. A paved walk leads between the British graves to the War Stone, which is on the east side, backed by a brick and stone screen with semicircular stone niches at either end. The Cross stands at the entrance and at the south end is a French Memorial.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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Newspaper clipping – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Photo of DAVID WARD CLEMENT – From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War One Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Newspaper clipping – From the Waterloo Region Record November 29th 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Photo of David Ward Clement – David Ward Clement.Born Sept. 2, 1897, Kitchener, Ont. Killed in collision of flying machines in France, December 2, 1917. Enlisted 118th Battallion [sic], N. Waterloo, transferred to 6th Highlanders, Montreal. Overseas Dec. 1916, France Feby [sic], 1917, served at front to July 1917, transferred to Imperial Aviation Corps, in which gunner and observer. http://images.ourontario.ca/kitchener/details.asp?r=vs&ID=45179&number=14
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Photo of David Ward Clement – In memory of the men and women from the Waterloo area who went to war and did not come home. From the booklet, Peace Souvenir – Activities of Waterloo County in the Great War 1914 – 1918. From the Toronto Public Library collection. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Waterloo Memorial Booklet – In memory of the men and women from the Waterloo area who went to war and did not come home. From the booklet, Peace Souvenir – Activities of Waterloo County in the Great War 1914 – 1918. From the Toronto Public Library collection. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.

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Date modified:: 2024-01-29