Name
Horace Arthur Clark
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/09/1916
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
London Regiment *1
24th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BAZENTIN-LE-PETIT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
F.5
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Wormley memorials,
Family grave Dulwich College Memorial
Pre War
Born in Brixton, Surrey on 23 May 1884, the son of George and Chirston Clark. Went to Dulwich College.
1911 Census: Single and living with family at 19 Palace Road, Streatham Hill and working as a salesman to a wholesale drapery company. Son of Mrs Chirston Clark of "Fairfield", Wormley, Herts.
Wartime Service
Killed in action during the Capture of High Wood, a battle on the Somme.
Additional Information
Horace and his brother George are also commemorated on the family headstone in Wormley (St. Laurence) Churchyard. Their inscription reads:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
GEORGE ERNEST CECIL CLARK
CAPTAIN 8TH SERVICE BATTALION L.N.L. REGIMENT PLOEGSTERT. JANUARY 9TH 1916.
AND
HORACE ARTHUR CLARK
CAPTAIN 24TH BATTALION LONDON REGIMENT BAZENTIN. SEPTEMBER 14TH 1917.
WHO BOTH FELL IN ACTION
“THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOR EVER MORE.”
Probate granted in London to brothers Harry Edgar and Frederick John Clark. Effects £1454. There is a photograph of Captain Clark on the Dulwich College website.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (The Queens's).
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
