BORN HULL 13/10/1891. YOUNGEST SON OF WALTER CLARK (BOARD OF TRADE INSPECTOR) & MRS CLARK AT 100 BRUNSWICK STREET, HULL.
ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, IN SEPTEMBER 1914. JOINED THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE, APRIL 1915. HE WORKED FOR THE ELLERMAN WILSON LINE AS A SHIP’S OFFICER PRIOR TO WAR. HE SERVED AS A NAVY LIEUTENANT, ON THE TROOPSHIP, “LOUVAIN”, WHICH WAS SUNK ON 20TH JANUARY 1918. HE DROWNED, AGED 26. HE WAS A FORMER TRINITY HOUSE BOY AND IS LISTED ON TRINITY HOUSE SCHOOL MEMORIAL. ALSO COMMEMORATED ON THE PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL.
HE LEFT £257 IN HIS WILL TO HIS FATHER. THIS WAS HIS PROBATE ADDRESS.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED, IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 31ST JANUARY 1818 WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HIS ELDEST BROTHER WAS A HUMBER PILOT AND ANOTHER BROTHER SERVED AT LIEUTENANT IN THE ROYAL NAVY RESERVE.
SS Louvain, built as a passenger ship by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull in 1897 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British armed boarding steamer of 1830 tons. On January 20th, 1918, Louvain used as a troop transport, was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UC-22 (Carl Bünte) in the Kelos Strait, in the Aegean Sea. 224 persons were lost.
