Name
Ernest James Clark (poss Clarke)
1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/09/1918
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
SE/17644
Army Veterinary Corps
attd. Royal Field Artillery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
M M
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIS-EN-ARTOIS BRITISH CEMETERY, HAUCOURT
II. B. 8.
France
Headstone Inscription
BELOVED WE LOVED THEE WELL BUT JESUS LOVED THEE BEST
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial
Pre War
Ernest James Clark was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, in 1890, son of John Joseph Clark a, Baker and Sarah Maria Clark. The youngest of six children.
1891 Census records Ernest as John, aged 9 months, living with his parents and five siblings at, 167 Crossbrook Street, Cheshunt, Herts.
1901 Census Ernest and the family are still living at 167 Crossbrook Street, Cheshunt.
1911 Census records Ernest aged 20, an Assistant Baker working for his Master Baker father John, living with his parents, sisters Edith, Ethel and brother John, a Forman Baker in the family Bakery still at, 167 Crossbrook Street.
Wartime Service
Ernest enlisted at Woolwich, London, posted to the Royal Veterinary Corps with the service number SE/17644 and attached to the Royal Field Artillery, seeing action on the Western Front. He died on 3rd September 1918, of wounds received in action.
Ernest was awarded the Military Medal, Gazetted on 13th November 1918.
Additional Information
His sister Mrs. Ethel Frances Whyte, of 57 Park Avenue, Bush Hill Park, Enfield, Middx, requested his Headstone inscription “BELOVED WE LOVED THEE WELL BUT JESUS LOVED THEE BEST”.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
