Name
Joseph Clark
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/09/1914
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
7829
Lincolnshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VAILLY BRITISH CEMETERY
II. AA. 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Holy Saviour Church War Memorial, Radcliffe Rd., Hitchin, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin, St Faith’s Church, Walsworth
Pre War
He was born at Tattershall, resided there. His home was at 11 St. Michael's Mount, Walsworth.
Enlisted at Lincoln and was mobilised at the outbreak of war.
Wartime Service
He and was in the 1st Battalion of the Regiment. His Regimental Number was 7829. The Battalion was in the 9th Brigade of the 3rd Di vision of II Corps.
He was sent to France on the 14th August 1914 with the 151 Battalion landing at Le Havre. This means that he was already a serving soldier. He fought on the Aisne and was killed in action there. The date of his death coincides with the Battle at the Heights of the Aisne, when the Lincolns crossed the river at Vailly to the east of Soissons and were subjected to heavy artillery fire from the enemy.
According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission he was killed on the 15th September 1914. He was buried at Plot 2, Row AA, Grave 7 in the Vailly British Cemetery in France.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
