Name
Albert Harry Clarke
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
80144
Essex Yeomanry
9th Hodson Horse (10th Duke of Cambridge Lancers)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
NA
Pre War
His parents were Amos Clarke 1861 – 1895 and Elizabeth nee Parker 1862 – 1942. They had four children: Edith Ellen b.16/3/1892, Florence b.1894 and three brothers, Thomas, John and Albert. All of whom who joined up in the 1st World War and survived.
In the 1891 England Census Amos Clarke is listed as a farm labourer and the family are living in Furneux Pelham. The Clarke family are an old Furneux Pelham family.
In the 1911 England Census Edith Ellen Clarke and Florence Clarke are listed as employed at The Chequers Hotel, 19 North Street, Bishops Stortford and Albert was Butcher's Boy, living at 43 Hadham Road, Bishops Stortford with the Walters family.
There was also a half-brother William Wallace/Wallis b.1898 from their mother's second marriage following their father's death in 1895.
He married Lilla L. Welham 1881 – 1959 in 1915 at Bishops Stortford. Registered in the July quarter.
Wartime Service
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index card gives no further details of enlistment or action, but gives his service numbers as 985 and 80144.
He sent a filed postcard home on the 14th February 1916 - the abbreviated way of letting people at home know how you were when you had no time, or it was too difficult to write. It contained standard text which could be crossed out to suit.
It said "I am quite well.". "Letter follows at first opportunity."
Additional Information
All three brothers and their half-brother survived the war.
Albert died 1933, registered at Tendring, Essex in the October quarter. Helen Lisle-Wood (Great Niece) confirms that her Granny always said that his early death was in part due to ill health caused by mustard gas inhalation.
Acknowledgments
Helen Lisle-Wood (Great Niece)
