Private Walter Clarke

Army Number : 307036 (formerly 5553 and 20947)

Battalion : 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Husband of Florence Clarke, of 9, Irene Terrace, Chelmsford Road, Basford, Nottingham. He was a journeyman pork butcher prior to enlisting at Nottingham. he went to France on 7th May 1915 and was killed in action, 6th June 1917, aged 34, during the German shelling of the line at Bilhem Farm, near Neuville, France.

Buried : Metz-En-Couture Communal Cemetery British Extension, France. Plot 1. Row D Grave 7.

Second Lieutenant William Miles Smalley is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Mapperley War Memorial, Nottingham.
Nottingham Central Methodist Mission (Albert Hall) War Memorial.
Nottingham University OTC War Memorial, Nottingham.
High Pavement Grammar School Roll of Honour, (Nottinghamshire Archives), Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.