Name
Joseph Clarke
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
266705
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 54 and 56.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, St Andrew’s Church Roll of Honour, Hertford, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1886. Husband of Elizabeth Clarke, later of 33b Oaker's Buildings, St. Andrew's St., Hertford. They had three sons, J H Clarke (b22/2/1911), Jack (b30/10/1915) and James (b3/6/1916)
Enlisted at Hertford, originally as Private 5146 with a home address of Colemans Yard, Hertford with his service recorded as starting 7th June 1915.
Wartime Service
He was renumbered to 266705 he went overseas on the 13th March 1916.
Posts as missing after the terrible losses of the Hertfordshire Re3gimentn on the 31st of July 1917 at St Julien and then recorded as killed in action on that date and his body was never found..
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
