Researching David Clemetson
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The name David means "beloved" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of David Clemetson on Ancestry
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Some Famous People called David Clemetson
David Clemetson
David Louis Clemetson (1 October 1893 – 21 September 1918), born in Jamaica into a wealthy family, was one of the first black people to serve as an officer in the British Army. He was commissioned in the Pembroke Yeomanry in October 1915. He was killed in action in France in September 1918.
Another early black officer, Walter Tull, was born in Kent, the son of a black Barbadian carpenter and white Englishwoman; he was commissioned in the Middlesex Regiment on 30 May 1917, and was killed in action on 25 March 1918. A third, George Bemand, was also born in Jamaica, son of a white English father and a black Jamaican mother; he was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery on 23 May 1915, was killed in action on 26 December 1916. Almost a century earlier, Nathaniel Wells served in the Yeomanry Cavalry of Gloucestershire and Monmouth in 1820 to 1822, and John Perkins served in the Royal Navy from 1775 to 1804.
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