De Ruvigny Roll of Honour Vol. 1 page 160
Clarence Royal Greathead was born 5th June 1897 at West Hartlepool, the only son of George William Greathead, of Cleadon, a North Eastern Railway Official, and his wife Ada, daughter of William Greig, of West Hartlepool.
Clarence was educated at the Henry Smith School at West Hartlepool, he was an apprentice with Messrs Grabham & Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He enlisted in September 1914 and was sent to France in April 1915. He was killed in action near Ypres at 5.30 am on the 16th June 1915, whilst in charge of a machine gun.
Buried at Wieltge. He was unmarried.
His officer wrote:-He was a brave, fearless soldier and will be missed by his battalion. We had him carefully buried and a cross bearing his inscription marks the place.
De Ruvigny Roll of Honour
He is remembered at Hexham on H51.30 at Cleadon C79.01, C79.02 at West Hartlepool W111.20, W111.54 and at Hartlepool H115.08 H115.31
