Name
George Thomas Clarke
1872
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/08/1916
41
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/1032
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
13th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 12 D and 13 B.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hemel Hempstead memorials, Not on the Bovingdon memorials, Not on the Boxmoor memorials, We are not aware of any Two Waters memorial
Pre War
George Thomas Clarke was born in 1872 in Two Waters/Bovingdon/Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead, the son of George Frederick and Harriet Clarke.
On the 1881 Census the family were living at Two Waters, Hemel Hempstead and his father was working as a labourer in an iron works. By the 1891 Census he was a boarder living at the home of James and Emma Searl in Astley Road, Hemel Hempstead and working as a Gardener.
He married Annie Mead on 6 August 1894 in St Paul's Church, Hemel Hempstead and they had two children, Elizabeth Harriet and Hamilton Arthur. On the 1901 Census the family were living at 8 Bridge Place, Watford, Herts where he was working as an Engineer's fitter.
By the 1911 Census they had moved to 10 Queen's Terrace, Palmerston Road, Wealdstone, Middlesex, and George was working as a Confectionery Machine Engineer in London.
Wartime Service
He attested at Mill Hill, Middlesex on 5 September 1914, at the age of 42 and served with the 13th Battalion, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex) Regiment in France from 1 September 1915. He had previously been a member of the Bedfordshire Volunteers.
He was killed in action on 31 August 1916. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £9 and pay owing of £2 6s 4d was split between his widow and his two children. She also received a pension of 15 shillings a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, dacorumheritage.org.uk
