Name
George Ernest Cecil Clark
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/01/1916
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
8th (Service) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PLOEGSTEERT WOOD MILITARY CEMETERY
IV.B.7
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Laurence Church Memorial, Wormley St Laurence, Wormley, Not on the Broxbourne memorials, Family grave Dulwich College Memorial
Pre War
Born on 15 January 1878 in Brixton, Surrey to George and Chirston Clark and 'privately baptised' on 17 February 1878 at St James the Apostle, Lambeth, Surrey. Father was a public accountant and the family lived at Loughborough Road, Brixton, Lambeth. He was educated at Dulwich College.
1911 Census: George was aged 33 and single and living at 19 Palace Road, Streatham Hill, with his family and working as a Secretary to a Public company (having been an accountants clerk on the 1901 Census). He married Maud Violet Bower on 17 December 1911 at Bedford, Beds and lived at The Retreat, Wormley, Broxbourne, Herts. Mother's address is given as 'Fairfield', Wormley.
He was a member of the Tower Hamlets Volunteers and afterwards the 17th London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles). Although he resigned in 1913 when war was declared he volunteered.
Wartime Service
He was killed by a shell which fell on the Company HQ when the enemy sent about 40 "Whizz Bangs" on to St Yves Avenue from the direction of Deulemont.
Newspaper reports dated 29th January 1916 reported his death and that he was "of Broxbourne", living in Wormley and received the rank of Captain in January 1915
Additional Information
Probate granted in London on 22 March to his widow. Effects £1035 5s 8d. There is a photo of Captain George E C Clark on the Dulwich College website.
George and his brother Horace are also commemorated on the family headstone in Wormley (St. Laurence) Churchyard. Their inscription reads:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
GEORGE ERNEST CECIL CLARK
CAPTAIN 8TH SERVICE BATTALION L.N.L. REGIMENT PLOEGSTERT. JANUARY 9TH 1916.
AND
HORACE ARTHUR CLARK
CAPTAIN 24TH BATTALION LONDON REGIMENT BAZENTIN. SEPTEMBER 14TH 1917.
WHO BOTH FELL IN ACTION
“THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOR EVER MORE.”
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
