Private John Clarke

Army Number: 16768

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

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of Elizabeth Clarke, of 421, Alfreton Road, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham and went to France on 11th December 1914 and was killed in action, on 22nd December 1914, aged 32, whilst serving in the line at Red Farm, near Richebourg, France.

Le Touret Memorial, France.

Private John Clarke is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Peters Church War Memorial, Radford, Nottingham.
Norton Street Congregational Church War Memorial, (Lenton Methodist Church), Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.