BORN HULL 1894. SON OF EDWARD FEWSON CLARK (1856-1921) AND ELLEN KNAPP (1862-1951), OF 2 MARY’S PLACE, OXFORD STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS AN OIL MILLER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, 11308, 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 23/03/1916, AGED 27. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, EDWARD.
HE IS BURIED IN FRANCE, AT VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURE NO.3.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, ARTHUR CLARKE, 9782, 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 23/04/1915, AGED 23 AND IS COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
First name:
JOHN CHARLES
Regiment:
Military Number:
11308
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
23/03/1916
Place died:
Voormezeele Enclosure No.3, West Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
22
1 WILFREDS TERRACE, OXFORD STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
