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https://www.cwgc.org/FIND A GRAVECapt Clement Perronet Sells - passed away 4 July 1919 - burial Northbrook Cemetery Swanage, Purbeck District, Dorset.
Plot: F. "U." 52.
Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Air Force attd. - Awards: M C. - Died aged 29 years.
https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57442346Obituary in the BMJ
http://www.bmj.com/content/2/3057/156.2https://www.theonlinebookcompany.com/OnlineBooks/RAMC/Persons/GoldenBookOne/5353 June 1918 -
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30716/supplement/6470/data.pdf7 June 1918 -
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/13265/page/1910/data.pdfhttp://www.ipernity.com/tag/286273/keyword/23273951891 Census , Crediton, Devon. RG12 Piece 1760 Folio 33 Page 21
Vincent P Sells 32 Annie B Sells 34
Muriel A P Sells 3 Born Bradford Yorkshire. Clement P Sells 1
Sarah Hand 38 Edith Turner 17
Annie was Annie Bertha Clements - married 12 August 1886 - Redhill, St Matthew, Surrey.
1901 Census New Headington Oxford - RG13 Piece 1378 Folio 75 Page 30
Vincent P Sells 42 Annie B Sells 44
Muriel A P Sells 13 Clement P Sells 11
Sarah Hand 47 Edith A Payne 19
Father Vincent Sells passed away 1907 - Headlington Oxfordshire - 3a 456
Mother Annie nee Clements Sells passed away 1909 - Headlington Oxford - 8a 439
Sister Muriel was mentioned on the British Service Army Record for Clement - residing 7 Portsdown Avenue, Golders Green at that time.
Sister Muriel Sells returns to UK on passenger list 28 April 1921 - New York to Liverpool - on the Carmania. Occupation Missionary. Country of last permanent residence USA. Country of intended future residence England.
Possible - Index to Alien Arrivals at Canadian Atlantic and Pacific Seaports, 1904-1944 - Muriel Sells - aged 34 years - born 1888 arrival USA 1922
UK Return Passenger List - M P Sells O B E - aged 47 years - Africa to Liverpool - 1 June 1935 - on SS Accra. Going to Banford Somers Road, Reigate, Surrey.
After further investigation, believe this could be Major Martin Perronet Sells who lived in Reigate Surrey Death of Major Perronet Sells - - 25 th April 1955 Death of his wife 9 Nov 1952 -
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39700/page/6187/data.pdfThere was a marriage Clement P Sells to Mary A Jones - St George Hanover Square London - 1a 1113 - registered Q4 of 1918.
Didn't come across a birth for Sells/Jones.
Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to the Royal Air Force.
Clement Sells was born on 6th September 1889 in Golders Green, London. He was the son of Vincent Perronet Sells of Highfield, Oxford. He married Mary A Jones in December 1918.
He was educated at Magdalen College School, and came to Merton as an Exhibitioner in 1908.
He enlisted in the 2nd London Field Ambulance, RAMC on the outbreak of hostilities in 1914 and went out to France in January of the following year. After several months, he returned home to complete his medical studies at the Middlesex Hospital.
He went back to France in January 1916, where he participated in the Somme operations. Invalided home with trench fever in October of the same year, Sells returned to the front in early 1917, when he was attached to the 1/8th Middlesex Regiment. He was subsequently present at Vimy Ridge that April, and was awarded the Military Cross, for gallantry during fighting west of Cambrai, on 3rd June 1918.
He next took up an appointment with 83rd Wing, Royal Air Force, but was once again invalided home in December 1918 and died as a result "of the after-effects of trench fever" at the RAF Hospital, Swanage, Dorset, on 4th July 1919, aged 29. He is buried at Northbrook Cemetery, Swanage, Dorset
http://share.merton.ox.ac.uk/items/show/94 - with photograph of Captain Clement Perronet Sells (1908) and a mention of his wife Mary A Jones who he married in December 1918.
http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/topic/236366-could-someone-please-help-me-mc-citation/No further records of Muriel in the USA or Canada so far.
Sandra