CLARK Arthur Henry 2/Lt

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CLARK Arthur Henry 2/Lt

2000-2024

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Surname: CLARK;

Forename(s): Arthur Henry;

Initials: AH;

Rank: 2/Lt;

Born in: Peckham;

Enlisted in: London, EC;

Enlistment Date: 05-Sep-1914;

Previous Number: 23244;

Previous Regiment: MGC;

Date of transfer to MGC: 17-Aug-1916;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 147 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (1): 147 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (2): 49 Bn;

Date abroad: 17-Mar-1915;

Theatre of War: 1;

How killed: DOW;

Where: France;

When killed: 03-May-1918;

Other Data: born 10/2/1889
transf to MGC No 23244 and disch to Commsn 25/07/1917
POW: 26/4/1918
ICRC Ref: PA 32923
1914-15 Star roll
posted missing, Red X lists, Apr 1918 - ICRC Red Cross Enquiry Card PA 26335
captured 25/4/1918
WO339/92178:later notified as died, gsw head, by German authorities.
No 126026 Pte S Watson of 49 Bn gave a statement of 24/10/1918: "I, 126026 Pte S Watson, 49 Bn MGC, a POW interned at Stamm Lager Arys, Ost Preussen, certify that I actaully saw 2/Lt AH Clark killed at Mont Kemmel on April 25th 1918. 2/Lt Clark was the officer in charge of my section and I was present at the time of his death
Germans provided certificate of death on 3.5.1918 at Limburg hospital
Estate £416/14/4d

Taken POW 25/4/18, DOW 3/5/18.
Mentioned in War Diary.
M.I.C. - 8 London Regiment (Post Office Rifles) No. 2167 Sergeant -> M.G.C.Lance Corporal No. 23244 -> to commission 25/7/17.
His father was a postman, and his wife is believed to have worked in the post office as a clerk.;

Other Notes: Died a POW. Missing 26/4/1918
CLARK, Second Lieutenant, ARTHUR HENRY, "D" Coy. 49th Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Inf). Died of wounds while a Prisoner of War 3rd May 1918. Age 29. Son of Henry Arthur and Minnie Essex Clark, of London; husband of Jessie Dorothy Clark,(nee Lycett) of 298, Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London. Q. 8. Tourcoing (Pont-Neuville) Communal Cemetery - Nord, France.;

Related National Archives files: WO339/92178;

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