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Humphries, Clifford Stuart, son of Stanley Humphries of Blackheath and Gertrude, d. of John Johnson of Banstead, Surrey; b. 18 May 1911; adm. May 1924 (H); left July 1929; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1929, BA 1932, MA 1937; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1935; MB BCh 1937; gen. med. practice Blackheath; RAMC 1939-41 (Capt.); d. of wounds (Middle East) 1941.
Clifford Stuart Humphries was born at Greenwich, London on the 18th of May 1911 the only child of Stanley Humphries, a school master, later an assistant manager at the Royal Ordnance factory, and Gertrude (nee Johnson) Humphries of 37, Dombey Road, Tulse Hill, later of Beckenham in Kent and of Parville Alsager, Stoke on Trent. He was christened at Holy Trinity Church, Tulse Hill on the 18th of June 1911. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from May 1924 to July 1929.
He matriculated for Trinity College, Cambridge as a pensioner on the 9th of October 1929 and graduated with a BA in 1932. He attended St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School and achieved MRCS and LRCP in 1935. He achieved MB BCh in 1937 and was awarded a MA in the same year.
He served as House Physician at the Royal Berkshire Hospital before entering general practise at a surgery at 75, Maxted Road, New Cross in London.
He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on the 4th of September 1939 and was promoted to Captain in 1940. He served in France, Greece and Crete.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Trinity College, Cambridge and on the St Thomas’s Hospital Roll of Honour.
He is buried at El Alamein War Cemetery Plot XXXII, Row C, Grave 9.
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020. Updated by Bethany Duck, Archives Assistant, September 2022.
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The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from Play 1919 to Election 1989, Volume 4, compiled by F.E. Pagan and H.E. Pagan, Padstow, 1992.
Westminster School Second World War Memorial by John C. Hamblin, 2022.