PRIVATE WILLIAM JACKSON CLARK 12/780. Born at Hull in 1890, William was the son of Thomas Clark and the late Catherine Hudson (1856-1897), of 14 Owens Square, New George St, Hull (1911 Census). Son of a Dockside Labourer. He had three brother and three sisters. An Oil Miller by trade. He lived with his wife Eliza and their daughter, at 1 Union Court, Great Union Street, Hull and 4 Mary’s Square, New George Street, Hull (War pension Address).
Enlisting at City Hall on 1st October 1914, he joined the fledgling 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Sportsmen’, 3rd Hull Pals. As a member of ‘C’ Company, William served first in Egypt and then in the trenches of the Western Front. He was killed by “shellfire” a term which carries imagery none of us want to imagine, on 16th August 1916 and is buried in Le Touret Military Cemetery; he was 26 years old. His grave inscription, reads, “Rest in Peace”.