Lance Corporal 49446 Harold Gordon Clarke
Regiment/Unit: Lancashire Fusiliers - 19th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Theatre of War First Served: (1) France
Date Entered Therein: 04/11/1915
Previous Reg/Num: 20282, S ancs R.
Age at death: 26
Date of death: 13th of October 1918
(Sunday)
Born: Windle, St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Haspres Coppice Cemetery Haspres - A. 34.
Family details:
Son of John and Mary Clarke, of 46, Oxford St., St. Helens.
Mother Mary is sole legatee.
Census details:
1901 - Shows 8 years old Harold G living at 64 Morley Street, St Helens with his parents John (41), Mary (43) and three siblings: John (16), George (14), Ada (5).
Also at the address is John snr's mother-in-law - Jane Rice (77).
1911 - Sees 18 years old 'Glass Grinder' Harold G living at 38 Oxford Street, St Helens with his parents John (52), Mary (53) and two siblings: George Edmund (24), Ada Muriel (15).
AVL 1918: 38 Oxford Street, St Helens.
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=21]Remembered On St Marks War Memorial, North Road.[/url]
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/49446HaroldGordonClarke.jpg[/pic][caption]Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929[/caption]
SHROH ref. 355