Name
Albert Clarke
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1915
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
1904
London Regiment *1
1st/19th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 130 to 135.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Berkhamsted memorials, 19th London Regiment Memorial, St Pancras Church, London (not yet verified)
Pre War
Albert Clarke was born in Berkhamsted, Herts in 1895, the son of Thomas and Fanny Clarke and one of eleven children, although five had died by 1911. He was baptised on 30 October 1895 at Great Berkhamsted.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 32 London Road, Two Waters, Hemel Hempstead, Herts where his father was working as a bricklayer. His father died and on the 1911 Census Albert was living with his widowed mother and brother Percy at 42 Euston Crescent, St Pancras, London where he was working as a porter/errand boy. His mother died in 1911.
He was said to be living in Euston Road at the time of enlistment.
Wartime Service
Albert's regimental number of 1904 suggests that he joined the army before 22 April 1914. He enlisted in Camden Town, London and served with the 1st/19th London Regiment, which landed at Le Havre, France on 10 March 1915.
He was killed in action on 25 September 1915, aged 19, during the Battle of Loos. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His sister received a war gratuity of £4 and his brother Percy received pay owing of £6 11s 7d.
N.B. the surname of Clarke is spelled variously with or without the 'e', Registered as Clarke at birth.
A war memorial exists to the men of the 19th London Regiment in St Pancras Church, Euston Road, London. No lists appear to exist online and online images are not clear enough to identify the 1069 individuals named but it is very likely Albert Clarke is one of them.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (St Pancras).
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
