Pte Clement Henry Heazel

Clement was born in 1897 and moved to several different places in Essex as a boy, probably due to his father's work as a road foreman. He was born in Great Braxted, spent a few years as a boy in Maldon, and by age 13 was living in Brentwood. After school he worked deliering milk in the town.

We don't know when he joined up during the first world war, but he moved around several different regiments so may have served for a large part of the war.

He started off in the Essex Regiment, then moved to the Middlesex Regiment, and by 1917 was in the 7th Battalion Royal Fusiliers. He was killed in France in 1918. He is remembered on the Arras Memorial in France, he is also remembered on the Brentwood War Memorial and on the St Thomas' War Memorial.