PRIVATE CLIFFORD EATON KING
HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY
3RD APRIL 1915 AGE 18
BURIED: VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURE NO. 3, YPRES, BELGIUM
In both the 1901 and the 1911 census, Clifford Eaton is the only child listed in the household belonging to Charles Reeds King, Bank Manager, and his wife Laura Isobel, so it looks as though he was their only child. It would explain the epitaph they chose for him.
Clifford King volunteered in the first month of the war and went to France in December 1914. He was killed whilst the HAC were in the trenches between 24 March and 31 May 1915 when they lost two officers wounded and 125 other ranks killed and wounded. Like Private Frederick Bateman, see epitaph 300, he was originally buried in the gardens of Elzenhall Chateau. In September 1919 the War Graves Commission exhumed the sixteen bodies buried in the chateau's gardens and reburied them in Voormezeele Enclosure No. 3.