Name
Alfred Ernest Clarke
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/04/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
8993
London Regiment
7th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Stanstead Abbotts Memorial
St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial Plaque, Stanstead St Margarets
Not on the Great Munden memorials
Not on the Little Munden memorial
Not on the Ware memorials
Pre War
Born 1896 in Little Munden and in 1901 lived at Sheffield House, High Street, Stanstead Abbotts with parents Ernest, who was a builder and ironmonger, and Mary, 5 brothers and 1 sister. In the 1911 census his occupation is shown as a house boy. Shortly after the family moved to 1 Railway Villas, St Margarets.
He was resident of Ware and enlisted in Whitehall.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Royal Fusiliers City of London Regt, 7th Battalion (The Shiny Seventh), sent to France as part of 190th Brigade, 63rd Royal Naval Division in July 1916. They took part in the Battle for Ancre as part of the Somme campaign and then in 1917 in the Arras offensive and 3rd Battle of Ypres. In 1918 they fought in the 2nd Somme Campaign and then in the Allied offensive against the Hindenburg Line. Alfred was killed whilst taking part in the first battle of Villiers Bretonneux, the final battle in the German Spring Offensive (Operation Michael).
Additional Information
Son of Ernest and Mary Maria Clarke, of I, Railway Villas, St. Margaret's, Herts. One of six sons who served, four of whom fell.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
