Clifford SALMAN

Ancestral surnames: 

• Salman, Senior, Fox, Ashton, Clifford, Barber, Birch, Fuller (by marriage: Halmer, Ovey, Slater)
• see his family tree drawing via www.groupphoto.co.uk/extra Row 3

Education: 

• Kendrick Schook, Reading
• Mirfield Theological College & Leeds University 

Decorations & Campaign Medals:

• 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Memorials: 

• No known grave (buried on the Loos battlefield at 36c.H19a.4½.5½. His body was never identified after the war)

• Loos Memorial to the Missing (Panel 93) (one of 20610 names) CWGC

• outside Brotherton Library at Leeds University (one of 326 names)

• Holy Cross Chapel of the Community Church of the Community of the Resurrection in Mirfield (one of 19 names)

• St Bartholomew’s Church, Reading (one of 84 names), as well as 2 personal memorials to him (one in the floor just before the altar, and one on the wall at the end of the left aisle as you're facing the altar)

• Kendrick School, memorial now in the chapel at Reading School (one of 48 names)

• St Laurence's Church, Reading (one of 57 names)

Pages in book (www.groupphoto.co.uk/the-book): 146-148

Appears in Charles Bartlett's letters: see I Shall Not Be Away Long book

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