Name
William Alfred Clark
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/12/1918
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
7664
Royal Army Ordance Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LESSINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
West of the mortuary or on the south boundary west of gate.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
St Matthew’s Church Memorial, Oxhey
Pre War
Son of William George and Emily (nee SMITH) CLARK of Fittleworth, Sussex; husband of Dorothy Ada (nee BISH) CLARK of Oxhey, Herts.
His parents possibly married 18 January 1879 at St James’, Piccadilly, Westminster. Emily died 3 May 1922 in Bushey, Herts, aged 62, and was buried 6 May st St James’, Bushey; William died 28 April 1933 in Bushey aged 77, and was buried 2 May, also at St James’.
William was born 1895 in Coates, Sussex, and married 20 April 1918 at St Matthew’s, Oxhey, Herts. Dorothy never remarried and died 1984 in the Watford district aged c87.
On the 1901 Census, aged 6 he lived in Coates, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a merchant’s clerk aged 16, he lived in Bushey, with his parents and three siblings.
Wartime Service
He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died.
Additional Information
There is a Death announcement for William in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 4 January 1919.
Unfortunately, William’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing, neither does he have an entry in Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
