The following biography was written by Victoria Doran. When the research into the names on the Grange Hill War Memorial began, it quickly became apparent that the memorial does not bear the names of everybody who was associated with the area. The local newspaper printed some additional names on 22nd December 1922 and other names can be found on different local memorials and in cemeteries and church yards. Victoria has done very well to uncover the following fascinating story of a soldier who has not been commemorated locally in any form whatsoever.
CLAUDE REX CLEAVER
Claude Rex Cleaver is not recorded on any of the memorials in Wirral but he did live in West Kirby for several years as a youth. His eldest brother Harold Willoughby Cleaver (1879-1950) married an elder sister of NICHOLAS ALBERT ROY VAN GRUISEN, one of those recorded on the Grange Hill War Memorial. He is the only known soldier with a West Kirby connection to have died in East Africa during the Great War. Continue reading “Claude Rex Cleaver”
An Imperishable Record 