Captain Clement Perronet SELLS (1908)
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Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to the Royal Air Force
Born 6 September 1889 in Golders Green, London
Died 4 July 1919, aged 29
Buried at Northbrook Cemetery, Swanage, Dorset.
Clement Sells 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 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, 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 3 June 1918.
He next took up an appointment with 83rd Wing, Royal Air Force, but was again invalided home in December 1918, and in March 2019, and died as a result “of the after-effects of trench fever” at the RAF Hospital, Swanage, Dorset, on 4 July 1919.