Name
Albert Edward Clarke
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/04/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
York and Lancaster Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ESSEX FARM CEMETERY
II. N. 5.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial, Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Harpenden
Pre War
Albert Edward was born in 1894 in Winchester, He was the second son of Arthur Decimus Clarke, a bank clerk and Fanny Louisa (nee Jackson).
By 1901 the family had moved to Chatham, Kent. Albert was educated at Kings College, Rochester and St Albans Grammar School. In 1911 the family had moved to Harpenden and were living at ‘Moreton’, Douglas Road, Harpenden. Albert and his brother Francis were bank clerks.
Wartime Service
Albert enlisted as private 5/2174 in the Royal Sussex Regiment. His serial number seems to indicate 5th Battalion and enlistment Aug Sep 1914.
He went to France 18 Feb 1915. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant Yorks & Lancashire Regiment Aug 1915.
Albert was killed in action on 20 Apr 1916 in the Ypres area and is buried at Essex Farm Cemetery, Ypres.
Additional Information
Through Probate effects of £315 were paid to his father.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk)
