Peterborough & The Great War

Biography

Joseph Clipson was born in 1893, to parents Frank, a farm labourer and Sarah. On the 1911 Census, they lived at Duke Street, Burton Latimer. Several of his sisters were in the tailoring trade and Joseph went into the cobbling industry as a boot and shoe clicker. The clicker is the person who cuts the uppers for boots or shoes from a skin of leather.

His service record has not been traced but Corporal Clipson’s medal card confirms that he attested in Northampton, and joined the Northamptonshire Regiment. On 19 June 1916, he passed through Peterborough East Station with other Bandsmen from his Battalion, probably as the 2/4 Battalion moved from their Thetford base to a new base in Harrogate. The unit went to France on 26 July 1917.  http://www.1914-1918.net/northants.htm

Sadly, Corporal Joseph Clipson was killed in action on 5 April 1918, and was buried at the Pozieres War Cemetery. He is also remembered on the Burton Latimer War Memorial.  He was awarded the 1914-1915 Star, British War and Allied Victory Medals.

Is your family name Clipson?  Do get in touch if you can tell us more about Joseph.