Private Edgar Clark

Army Number: 203478 (formerly 5265)

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Arthur Clark, of 4 Portland Street, Beeston, Nottingham. He enlisted on 25th November 1915 at Nottingham and went to France on 12th July 1916. He suffered trench fever and was treated at No. 4 general Hospital Boulogne before being transferred to England on 6th October 1916. He returned to France on 23rd July 1917 and suffered gunshot wounds to his right shoulder on 26th September 1917. He was treated at 32 Casualty Clearing Station, Brandhoek, Belgium, on 27th September 1917. He was then transferred to the 1st Canadian Hospital at Etaples, France on 28th September 1917 then on to England on Hospital Ship Pieter De Connich, on 30th September 1917. He returned to France on 18th January 1918 and died as a prisoner of war on 27th October 1918.

Buried: Belgrade Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 4. Row D. Grave 9.