Name
A (Albert) James Clark
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/05/1918
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
Army Veterinary Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St James’ Church Memorial, Thorley
Working Men’s Club / Village Hall, Memorial, Thorley
Pre War
Son of James Albert and Jane Wybrow Clark, of Chrysantum, Thorley. Born at Thorley. Before joining the Army, James was in the Metropolitan Police. His home address was Moor Hall Cottages.
Wartime Service
James joined the Army on April 6th 1915 and went to France in October 1915. He died of Consumption at Kennington, nr Ashford, Kent on May 28th 1918. The following was taken from a newspaper cutting published in February 1919 and mainly relates to James’ brother, Joseph: 'General sorrow has been caused in Thorley by the death on Tuesday, from pneumonia, of Trooper Joseph Walter Clark, of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry, the fourth son of Mr and Mrs James Albert Clark of Moor Hall Cottages, Thorley. The deceased, who was in the Hertfordshire Constabulary before joining the Army, had served abroad in France, Egypt, Palestine and Syria and only returned last week after an absence abroad of over two years. His eldest brother, Major Charles Clark, M.C., of the Royal field Artillery, was killed in action in France last April; and another brother, Sergeant Albert James Clark, of the Army Veterinary Corps, died last May. The coffin, wrapped in the Union Jack, was carried into the church by a detachment of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry …… who fired three volleys over the grave……… The grave was lined with evergreens.'
Additional Information
Four sons served and three were killed: James, Charles and Joseph with William surviving. www.friends-stjames.org
Not found in CWGC records.
Acknowledgments
John E. I. Procter (Rector of Thorley), Bill Hardy, Philip Hargrave - www.friends-stjames.org, Jonty Wild
