Name
Arthur Henry Clark
16/03/1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/12/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
1672
London Regiment *1
10th Bn. *1
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PIETA MILITARY CEMETERY
C. II. 2.
Malta
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial
Pre War
Arthur Henry Clark was born in Enfield, Middlesex, on 16th March 1886, son of Thomas Henry Clark, employed by The Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield and Elizabeth Sarah Clark (nee Corkett).
Baptised at St James Church, Enfield, Middx, on 21st November 1886.
1891 Census records Arthur aged 5, at school, living with his parents, and three brothers Ernest (7), Sidney (4) and Thomas (1) in, Eastfield Road, Enfield, Middx.
His father Thomas Henry Clark died in 1896, aged 33.
1901 Census records Arthur aged 15, working as a Telegraph Boy, living with his widowed mother Elizabeth and three brothers, at, 81 High Street, Cheshunt, Herts.
Arthur married Sarah Jane Holms in July 1909, they went on to have three children Arthur Cyril (1910-1974), Henry William (1911-1911) and Robert Henry (1915-1917).
1911 Census records Arthur (25), married to Sarah Jane and they have one son Arthur Cyril aged 7 months, they were living at, 34 Havelock Road, Tottenham, Middx. Arthur was employed as a Postman.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted at 49, The Grove, Hackney, Lon/Middx, The H.Q. of the 10th (County of London) Battalion (Hackney) London Regiment and issued with the service number 1672.
In July 1915, Arthur and his Battalion were mobilized for war, sailed from Plymouth, Devon, for Gallipoli, via Mudros, landing at Suvla Bay on 11th August 1915. In December 1915, the Battalion was evacuated from Gallipoli and moved back to Egypt. Arthur died on 16th December 1915, of Dysentery contracted while on active service, he is buried in the CWGC Pieta Military Cemetery in Malta.
Additional Information
Sarah received a widow’s pension of 18/6 a week from 26th June 1916, it was reduced by 3/6 a week on the death of son Robert in March 1917, she also received is effects of £5-5s-11d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £4-10s-00d.
Sarah remarried in December 1917 to Ronald McDonald. Arthur's younger brother Private 25430 Sidney Edward Clark of the Northamptonshire Regiment was Killed in Action on 21st July 1917.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (Hackney).
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
