Name
Frederick Clarke
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/11/1918
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
105809
Hertfordshire Yeomanry
1st/1st
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DAMASCUS COMMONWEALTH WAR CEMETERY
B. 114.
Syria
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Fleetville Memorial (Hatfield Rd Cemetery), St Albans,
Stanstead Abbotts Village Memorial,
St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Stanstead St Margaret’s,
Hertfordshire Yeomanry Memorial, St Albans Abbey, Herts,
Not on the Ware memorials,
We are not aware of any memorial in Wadesmill
Pre War
He was born in Wadesmill in 1894 (du Rivgny records Ware), in 1901 lived at Sheffield House, High Street, Stanstead Abbotts with parents Ernest and Mary plus 5 brothers and a sister.
In 1911 he was working as an ironmonger’s assistant probably for his father who was a builder and ironmonger. The family later moved to 1 Railway Villas, St Margaret’s.
Wartime Service
Joined the Hertfordshire Yeomanry in 1915, in August he was sent to Gallipoli where he fought until evacuated. Then sent to Egypt as part of the Indian Expeditionary Force.
Served in both Syria and Iraq, where he survived the remainder of the war. He contacted Malaria and Dysentery and died three weeks after the war in Europe ended.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Terry Collins, Gareth Hughes, Jonty Wild
