Name
Henry Robert Ernest Clark
18 Oct 1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/06/1915
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
London Regiment *1
15th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY
I.B.16
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Monken Hadley Memorial, Hadley Common Memorial, Hadley Wood Memorial
Pre War
Son of William Henry Dennis Clark and Isabella Goodwin Clark (nee Terry) of ‘Hoadley’, Hadley Wood and born in Muswell Hill on 18 Oct 1891.
In 1901 (Census) he was living at Lorna Doone, Muswell Road, Hornsey with parents and siblings. In 1902 he started his formal education at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Barnet, he went on to St John's College Cambridge where he gained double honours in Law and History.
He also became a Second Lieutenant of the OTC Company,
Wartime Service
In Sep 1914 he was gazetted 2Lt to 9th Battalion London Regiment, the Regiment which his father was also serving as the Quartermaster.
He proceeded to France in Mar 1915.
He was appointed Machine Gun Officer for the Battalion and 26 May 1915 he was in action during the battle of Festubert he was wounded in the head and was evacuated to the Clearing Hospital at Chocques, where he died on 3 Jun 1915 and was buried at the same place.
Additional Information
His father survived the war and returned home to Hadley Wood.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams
David Harbott
