Name
Horace Clark
1900
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/09/1918
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
254609
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL
Panel 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no headstone. He is commemorated on the Vis-En-Artois Memorial to the missing in France.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt memorials*1, Not on the Waltham Cross Memorials
Pre War
Horace Clark was born in the early part of 1900, in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, son of Alfred Owen Clark, employed at the Royal Small Arms Factory, in Enfield, and Elizabeth Jane Clark (nee Miller). One of twelve children although four died in infancy.
1901 Census records Horace aged 1, living with his parents, four brothers and sister Rose (6) at 2 Cross Road, Cheshunt, Herts.
1911 Census, Horace (11), his parents, brothers Leonard (23), Norman (14) and Basil (9) are living at 24 Holmwood Road, Freezywater, Waltham Cross, Herts.
His father Alfred Owen Clark died in July 1919, aged 57.
Wartime Service
Horace enlisted at Whitehall, London, posted to the 3rd (City of London) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, (London Regiment) and issued with the service number 254609.
On completion of his training, he was sent to France. Seeing action on the Western Front, Horace was Killed in Action on 1st September 1918, aged 18. He has no known grave; he is commemorated on the Vis-En-Artois Memorial to the missing in France. Panel 10. At the time of his death he was with the 3rd Battalion, attached to the 2nd/4th (City of London) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, (London Regiment).
Additional Information
His brother Private F/1869 Norman Clark of the 17th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment was Killed in Action on 1st June 1916, aged 19.
*1 Two names are recorded on a family grave in Cheshunt Burial Ground, the inscription reads:
"NORMAN CLARK AND HORACE CLARK
KILLED IN ACTION 1918"
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
