Private Frank Clark
Army Number: 1255
Battalion: 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born and lived at Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Son of Frank and Ann Clark, of 20 Garside Street, Worksop. He was an employee at Smith Brothers Ltd., Alboin Mills, Worksop, prior to enlisting at Worksop. He went to France on 2nd March 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.
Private Frank Clark is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St Mary and St. Cuthbert’s Priory Church War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Worksop War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
