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Smith Clayton

Private
World War One

Smith Clayton was a Private in the Durham Light Infantry.
He is mentioned on the Bogthorn Methodist Chapel Sunday School lists of Oakworth men who served in WW1. Very little more is known about him.

Villers Outreaux is 20 km north of St Quentin and 16 km south of Cambrai. Bois-Des-Angles Cemetery is 3 km north of Villers Outreaux on the D76 which connects Villers Outreaux with Lesdain.
Today it is signposted from the crossroads D16, D76 as you enter or leave the town on its western side. 

Crevecoeur-sur-L'Escaut was captured by the New Zealand and 3rd Divisions on the 1st October, 1918. The Cemetery was made by the 21st Division in the middle of October, 1918; and after the Armistice it was enlarged by the concentration of graves from the two cemeteries named below. There are now over 150, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this cemetery. A special memorial records the name of one United Kingdom soldier, buried in Bel-Aise Farm Cemetery, whose grave could not be found. The Cemetery covers an area of 506 square metres and is enclosed by a stone rubble wall.
Bel-Aise Farm Cemetery, Crevoeur-Sur-L'Escaut, was at the "Fonds de Belle Aise", 460 metres West of Belle-Aise Farm. It contained the graves of 52 soldiers of the 37th Division, all but one of whom fell on the 8th October, 1918.
Mortho Wood Cemetery, Crevoeur-Sur-L'Escaut, was on the East side of the Bois de Mortho, West of Villers-Outreau; and in it were buried 74 Welsh soldiers and one man of the Tank Corps, who fell on or about the 8th October, 1918. 
There are 168 Identified Casualties buried in this cemetery.


Please contact me, Andy Wade with any information.