Private Willis Clarke

Army Number : 15577 (formerly 15578)

Battalion : 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Son of Joseph and Edith Clarke, of Rupert Street, Pilsley, Derbyshire. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Mansfield. He went to France on 27th August 1915 and was killed in action, 25th September 1915, whilst serving in the trenches near La Chapelle-D’Armentieres, France.

Buried : X Farm Cemetery, La Chapelle-D’Armentieres, France. Row D. Grave 9.