CLIFFORD REGINALD BREWSTER

Born: 14th July 1907, Ipswich.

Died: 27th October 1942; age: 35; El Alamein

Residence: 28, Carlton Road, Kirkley, Suffolk.

Rank: Lance Corporal; Service Number: 7921231.

Regiment: Royal Armoured Corps, Royal Tank Regiment, 47th (Oldham).

Memorial Reference:

Column 23.

Alamein Memorial,

El Alamein,

Matruh,

Egypt.

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Herbert & Ethel Brewster; husband of Doris May Brewster, of Lowestoft, Suffolk.

CENSUS

1911   26, Norwich Road, Ipswich.

Clifford was 3 years old and living with his parents.

Herbert Walter Brewster, 34, a Confectioner – own account – at home, born Ipswich.

Ethel May Brewster (nee Baker), 28, Assisting in Business, born Ipswich.

1 domestic servant.

Clifford was educated at Ipswich School – left the school in 1920.

In 1930, at Loddon, Norfolk, Clifford married Doris May Littlewood, born October 1907, Sedgeford, Norfolk – daughter of Walter George Littlewood, a grocer and draper – own account and Ethel Littlewood (nee Burgess). 

They had 2 sons:

Michael Havard Brewster, born July 1932, Suffolk.

John R. Brewster, born 1937, Suffolk.

ENGLAND & WALES REGISTER 1939.

Clifford & Doris were living with their sons at the family home – 28 & 30, Carlton Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk. He was a Wine & Spirit Merchant’s Manager.

Probate to Doris May Brewster – widow.

Clifford is also remembered on the Chapel war memorial at Ipswich School, and at Holy Trinity Church, Loddon, Norfolk.

Loddon Memorial.