Name
Sidney Edward Clark
9/11/1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/07/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
25430
Northamptonshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND (TRANSPORT FARM)
Sp. Mem. F. 30.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial
Pre War
Sidney Edward Clark was born in Enfield, Middlesex, on 9th November 1887, son of Thomas Henry Clark who was employed by The Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield and Elizabeth Sarah Clark (nee Corkett).
1891 Census records Sidney aged 4, living with his parents, and three brothers, Ernest (7), Arthur (5), and Thomas (1) in, Eastfield Road, Enfield, Middx.
In 1896 his father Thomas Henry Clark died aged 33.
1901 Census records Sidney aged 13, living with his widowed mother Elizabeth and three brother at, 81 High Street, Cheshunt, Herts.
Sidney married Adelaide Mary Randolph in Waltham Cross, Herts, on 1st July 1915, They went on to have one daughter Frances Lillian Mary Clark in April 1916.
Wartime Service
Sidney enlisted at Cheshunt, Herts, posted to the Northamptonshire Regiment with the service number 25430.
The Battalion landed in France in July 1915, for service on the Western Front. Sidney was Killed in Action on 21st July 1917, aged 29.
Additional Information
Adelaide received a widow’s pension of 18/9, a week from 4th February 1918, and his effects of 17/11, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £4. His elder brother Private 1672 Arthur Henry Clark of the London Regiment, died on 16th December 1915.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
