Leatherhead War Memorials - WWI - Pte Arthur Clapshew, 1st Bn Royal Fusiliers
Panel 2, Row 3, Column 2 of Leatherhead's Town War memorial in North Street, Leatherhead.
The same name is on Gt Bookham's War Memorials.

Arthur Clapshew is named on the Church Lads Brigade Roll of Sacrifice tryptich in All Saints' Church (BFree), Leatherhead.
In May 1915 Leatherhead's Church Monthly magazine listed him as being a City of London Territorial.
He is named on the Shrine of Sacrifice in the Chapel of Remembrance in Leatherhead Parish Church.

An Arthur Clapshew is also named on the War Memorials at St Nicolas Church, Great Bookham, Surrey.

Liam Sumption's research (Taken Not Given, p91) adds:

"The Regimental records confirm that he was killed in active service on 24th September 1917 and that he was in the 1st (City of London) Bn, Royal Fusiliers. He had enlisted at Handle Street, [and according to Soldiers died in the Great War] was resident St Pancras and his regimental number was 2000776." He died at Beaugry.

It would appear from the CWGC record that his parents had emigrated by the time of the CWGC record being made: clearly as a youth Arthur Clapshew was in this part of Surrey and he enlisted in London.

CWGC record
Name: CLAPSHEW, ARTHUR
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 24/09/1917
Service No: 200776
Additional information: Son of Arthur and Nelly Clapshew, of 4907, Walden St., Vancouver South, British Columbia, Canada.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. F. 3.
Cemetery: RED CROSS CORNER CEMETERY, BEUGNY
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=240466

If you can add to this page please contact the editor: we would like to establish where he lived, to understand his Leatherhead/Bookham connections.
page added 16 Feb 2009