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Private Anthony Martin Clodt was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.

He was born c. 1889, in West Ham, the son of German-born parents Henry and Annie Clodt (née Morris). At the time of the 1911 Census, the younger Clodt was working as a labourer at a sugar refinery while living with his family at 19 Custom House, Winton Road.

Clodt died on 15 September 1916, in an attack on High Wood during the Somme Offensive, while serving with the 1/19th (County of London) Battalion (St Pancras), The London Regiment on the Western Front.

He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Thiepval Memorial.

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