Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookember, but was shortly after invalided home with influenza and a slight attack of pneumonia. He rejoined the reserve battn. (6th) in February, 1915, and went to France, 17 March, where he was attached to the 2nd Battn., joining A Coy. He was killed on 9 May, 1915, in the attack on Fromelles and the Aubers Ridge as he was leading his platoon to take the German trenches. He was buried near Basseye, a little north of Kemmel, France. Almost all the officers of the battn. were casualties in this attack, but Capt. Nugent, company officer, 2nd Rifle Brigade, wrote: "Your son commanded his platoon with the greatest dash and gallantry, and showed himself to be a splendid officer." He had already gained distinction in his professional career as a civil engineer, important works having been entrusted to his care, and was a keen sportsman in every way. His next brother, Algernon Percy, was killed also in France, two and a-half months later, July 24 (see his notice). [Illustration: =Harold Percy Clarke.=] =CLARKE, HERBERT CHARLES=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21948, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CLARKE, HERBERT EDGAR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R.B., 8114), S.S. 103947, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =CLARKE, HENRY HAMES=, Chief Ship's Cook (Pensioner), 153478, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CLARKE, JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5108), 175327, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CLARKE, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109357, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CLARKE, JAMES GEORGE=, Officer's Steward, 1st Class, L. 5276, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =CLARKE, MAURICE TREDWAY=, Private, No. 29752, 10th Battn., 1st Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force, yr. _s._ of Tredway Sydenham Clarke, Barrister-at-Law, late of Lincoln's Inn, by his wife, Constance, dau. of Edmund Dewar Bourdillon; _b._ Richmond, co. Surrey, 22 March, 1883; educ. Malvern College, Eastbourne College and St. Catherine's College, Cambridge; went to Canada in June, 1905, and took up land near Eagle Butte, Medicine Hat, Alberta, and in 1910 obtained an appointment under the Dominion Forestry Department, which he held until Sept. 1913. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he volunteered for Imperial service; came over with the first contingent in Oct.; went to France, Feb. 1915; was slightly wounded in the early stages of the Second Battle of Ypres, and died 24 April, 1915, from injuries received whilst the ambulance was passing through Ypres; _unm._ He was buried at Vlamertinghe. [Illustration: =Maurice Tredway Clarke.=] =CLARKE, MONTAGU CHRISTIAN CUTHBERT=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, only _s._ of the late Montagu Charles Clarke, of the Southern Mahratta Railway, India, by his wife, Ada Georgina, dau. of Daniel Booth Rowbotham; _b._ Lindfield, co. Sussex, 3 Oct. 1893; educ. Radley College, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 4 Sept. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 12 Dec. 1914. He was killed in action at Ypres, 8 May, 1915, and buried in graveyard of the temporary hospital on the Menin Road, about one mile from Ypres; _unm._ =CLARKE, MORDAUNT EDWARD LEONARD HANNAM=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Worcestershire Regt., yst. _s._ of the late Col. Francis Coningsby Hannam Clarke, C.M.G., R.A., sometime Surveyor-General of Ceylon, by his wife, Elizabeth Stainton (24, The Grove, Boltons, S.W.), dau. of S. W. Brown, F.R.C.S.; _b._ Bath, 13 Oct. 1884; educ. Marlborough College and University College Oxford; served first in the Kent Artillery from which he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Worcestershire Regt., 29 May, 1907, and was promoted Lieut. 22 Oct. 1910, serving for the next 3 or 4 years as Scout Officer to his regt. On the outbreak of the European war he left with his regt. for France, and was shot through the head by a bullet from a shell at Candry, near Cambray, 26 Aug. 1914; _unm._ He was carried to the Civil Hospital at Marly, but never regained consciousness. He received the following "mention" in Aug. 1913:--"I am to inform you that the G.O.C. 7th Brigade, wishes you to know how much he appreciates your work as Scout Officer during Brigade training. As this matter was not mentioned at the Pow-Wow he desired that you should be informed at once." =CLARKE, VICTOR=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 8513), 194420, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =CLARKE, WILLIAM=, Sergt., No. 308, A Coy., 2nd Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd _s._ of George Clarke, pit top man, by his wife, Mary, dau. of George Kelk; _b._ Blyth, 4 June, 1885; educ. there and Austerfield; enlisted in May, 1903, and served eight years in India, Egypt and Malta, and was a Reservist when war broke out. He was gassed at the Battle of Hill 60, but recovered and was sent back to the trenches, and was killed in action at Ypres, 29 June, 1915, and was buried at La Brique, a mile and a-half away from Ypres, near Turco Farm. He had put his head over the parapet of the trench to aim at a German sniper, and was shot through the head, being killed instantaneously. 2nd Lieut. Granger wrote: "He was an excellent soldier, a splendid N.C.O., who took an interest in his work, and whatever he did he did well. He was as plucky a man as it is possible to meet. I deeply regret his death, and may say that there is no one else in the company whose loss would be more keenly felt." Sergt. Clarke was mentioned for conspicuous bravery on the field. He also had six medals which he received while serving in India, etc. He _m._ at St. James' Church, Doncaster, 3 Aug. 1913, Harriet (61, Concrete Cottages, Wombwell, near Barnsley), dau. of Thomas Schorah, and had twin children: Laurence and Doris (died 26 Aug. 1914), _b._ 4 July, 1914. [Illustration: =William Clarke.=] =CLARKE, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5843), S.S. 100711, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =CLARKE, WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17297, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CLARKE, WILLIAM JOB=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10258), 208608, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CLARKSON, ARTHUR EDWIN=, Private, No. 1122, 8th Battn. (90th Winnipeg Rifles) Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Annie (now wife of Maurice Barker, of St. Rose du Lac, Manitoba, Canada, and relict of John Cahill, of Scarborough); _b._ Scarborough, co. York; educ. Scarborough Board School; went to Canada with his mother in June, 1903; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted at Portage la Perrée, Man., 14 Aug. 1914; left Canada with the first contingent in Oct.; went to the Front in Feb., and was killed in action at Langemarck, 25 April, 1915. He _m._ at St. Mary's Church, Scarbor |