Private William Clarke

Army Number: 1900

Battalion: 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Son of Samuel and Florence Clarke, of 28, Central Terrace, Lordsmill Street, Chesterfield. He was a machine hand for Chesterfield Tube Company prior to enlisting at Chesterfield on 2nd May 1913. He went to France on 25th February 1915 and was killed in action on 19th September 1915, aged 21, by a German shell burst whilst tending the wounded near the Ouderdom Canal, Belgium.

Buried: Chester Farm Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 1. Row C. Grave 4.

Private William Clarke is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Newbold War Memorial, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.