Clark, Frank

Sergeant, FRANK CLARK 11/405. Frank Clark born about 1883 at Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. He was living at 2, Hills Place, Princess Street, Hull and working as a dock labourer in the 1911 UK Census. A single man sharing one room with another dock labourer and a painter. At the outbreak of war, Frank enlisted at City Hall on 8th September 1914 joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. A member of B Company, Frank was a veteran of Egypt, the Somme and Oppy Wood, but met his end when he was wounded and captured during trench raids on German positions at Fresnoy on 8th November 1917. He died of wounds behind enemy lines two days later and was buried in a joint grave in Douai Communal Cemetery. I hope he hadn’t left a family behind in Canada, wondering whatever became of their son and brother. RIP Sgt Clark.