Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of William and Ellen Fretter, and the husband of Mildred Fretter. He left a son Victor Clarence. Sgt Victor Fretter is on the 1939-45 list on the Broughton Memorial, and was killed when his aircraft crashed in Northern Ireland in 1942. Clarences granddaughter, Pat Gutteridge showed Ken Paterson, who is researching the Broughton Astley Memorial some letters that her grandfather Clarence had written to his wife Mildred after he had become a prisoner-of-war. He was given the prisoner-of-war number 1093, and was initially in Friedrichsfeld Camp near Wesel north of Cologne. He was later transferred by train to East Prussia where he died in November 1918. In February 1919, Mildred received a letter from one of her husband’s friends who had been in the camp with him, telling her that Clarence had died of dysentery. Pat Gutteridge also had the letters sent to her mother, Joan, informing Joan of the death of her husband Victor and the arrangements that would be made to return his body home for burial in the Broughton Astley Cemetery. One particular sentence in the letter was very telling when it said that no attempt should be made to open the coffin. When the aircraft crashed it exploded and caught fire, so the bodies that were recovered would have been hardly recognisable.