Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookf his work. Your loss is the country's loss also." His brother, Harold Percy, of the Rifle Brigade, was killed on 9 May, two and a-half months earlier (see his notice). [Illustration: =Algernon Percy Clarke.=] =CLARKE, AMBROSE CHILDS=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Leicestershire Regt. (T.F.), elder _s._ of William Arthur Clarke, of The Homestead, Manor Road, Leicester, Solicitor, by his wife, Ruth Lilian, dau. of Charles Baimbridge Rendle, of Russell Road, Kensington, Surgeon; _b._ Stoke, Devonport, co. Devon, 12 July, 1896; educ. Stoneygate School, Leicester, King's College Choir School, Cambridge, and Malvern College. At the outbreak of war he was in camp with the Malvern College contingent of the O.T.C., and returned to Leicester, receiving his commission two days afterwards, 6 Aug. 1914. He was killed in the trenches near Messines, 9 May, 1915, during a heavy bombardment. He was placing his men under cover, refusing to take shelter himself until all his men were out of danger, and he had just got his last men under cover when he was killed by a shell instantaneously. He was buried in what had formerly been "Packhorse Farm," Wulverghem, at the back of the English lines near Bailleul. A brother officer, who has since been killed, wrote: "He honestly was one of the cheeriest, best, most capable and well-loved officers in the battn., especially taking his age into consideration." [Illustration: =Ambrose Childs Clarke.=] =CLARKE, BASIL HEATHCOTE=, Rifleman, No. 2336, 1/9th Battn. (Queen Victoria's Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. _s._ of Henry Heathcote Clarke, of 17, Birchwood Mansions, Muswell Hill, N., formerly of Durban, Natal, Journalist, by his wife, Florence Annie, dau. of Charles Samuel Clarke; _b._ Stamford Hill, N., 4 March, 1894; educ. Oakfield School, Crouch End, N.; was a member of the office staff of the London Electric Supply Corporation, Ltd., 25A, Cockspur Street, S.W., but on the declaration of war volunteered for Active Service, and enlisted in Queen Victoria's Rifles, 3 Sept. 1914; landed in France, 23 Jan. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action near Wulverghem, 6 March, 1915, only two days after his twenty-first birthday; _unm._ He was buried in the military burial ground near Wulverghem Church. Coy. Sergt.-Major Ashton wrote: "He was on the look out at the time, and he was struck by a rifle bullet, and death was instantaneous.... He had only been with us such a short while, and we have lost a brave and good comrade." Clarke was a server at St. Peter le Poer, Friern Barnet, and also assistant scout-master of the 91st London Troop. [Illustration: =Basil Heathcote Clarke.=] =CLARKE, CHARLES PRIOR=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1190), 205888, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CLARKE, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 6419), 298869, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CLARKE, EDWARD THOMAS=, Private, No. 27621, 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders) Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest _s._ of Joseph Edward Clarke, of 26, Lagham Road, South Godstone, Surrey, Groom Gardener; by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of Mark Chapman; _b._ St. John's Wood, London, 12 Dec. 1893; educ. Blindley Heath National School, Surrey; went to Canada on his fourteenth birthday in 1907, and settled at Sweetsburg, working as a farm hand. He joined the 13th Scottish Light Dragoons, and gained his certificate as Sergt.-Major at the Royal Cavalry School at St. Jean, Quebec, 15 Feb. 1913. On the outbreak of war he joined the 48th Highlanders as a Private, came to England with the First Canadian Contingent, and after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter, went to the Western Front, 11 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 22-24 April, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Edward Thomas Clarke.=] =CLARKE, ERNEST=, Seaman, R.N.R., 5535A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CLARKE, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, 302310, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =CLARKE, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9094), 201471, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CLARKE, GEORGE RANKIN=, Private, No. 271, B. Coy. 1st Newfoundland Regt., _s._ of Captain John Clarke, of Brigus, Newfoundland, Fisherman and Seafaring man; _b._ Brigus, Cape Breton, Newfoundland, 20 Oct. 1897; educ. Brigus Methodist Academy, and Methodist College, St. John's; volunteered for Imperial service and joined the 1st Newfoundland Regt. after the outbreak of war, Sept. 1914, and _d._ in hospital at Mudros, 24 Nov. 1915, of dysentery contracted while on active service; _unm._ =CLARKE, HAROLD MARTIN=, Barrister-at-Law, Lieut., 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of George William Clarke, of The Glen, Forest Hill, S.E., Town Clerk of Stepney, by his wife, Alice Mary, dau. of William Edwin Hill; _b._ Kirby-le-Soken, co. Essex, 25 Feb. 1889; educ. Whitgift Grammar School, Croydon, and Clare College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 1911. On 9 May, 1913, he obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Poplar and Stepney Rifles, and on the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914, at once volunteered for foreign service and was promoted Lieut. 29 Aug. 1914; went to the Front with his regt. 9 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 26-27 Sept. 1915. The following order was issued shortly before this action (sent to England after Lieut. Clarke's death): "The Major-General wishes to place on record his appreciation of the good work which has been done during the last four months by the following instructors at the Divisional Bomb School: Instructor Lieut. Martin Clarke, &c.--Headquarters, 10.25 p.m." At Whitgift he was Colour-Sergt. in the Cadet Corps, and in the History Sixth, and at Clare he received his Lent and May colours. Lieut. Clarke _m._ at St. Albans in 1914, Daisy Emily (120, Croxted Road, West Dulwich), dau. of Philip Early Fenton Keatch, of India; _s.p._ [Illustration: =Harold Martin Clarke.=] =CLARKE, HAROLD PERCY=, 2nd Lieut., 6th Special Reserve, attd. 2nd, Battn. The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own), eldest _s._ of Joseph Percy Clarke, of 14, Hans Court, S.W., formerly of Buenos Ayres, M.Inst. C.E., etc., by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late Edward Glover; _b._ Rosario de Santa Fe, Argentine Republic, 18 March, 1888; educ. Marlborough College; trained as a civil engineer, and became an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1913. He was constructing engineer on the Central Argentine Railway, and, arriving in England soon after the outbreak of war, he obtained through the Cambridge O.T.C. his commission in the Special Reserve of Officers as 2nd Lieut. from 15 Aug. 1914, joining the 6th Battn. Rifle Brigade at Sheerness. He went to the Front in Nov |