Private Thomas Edward Clarke
Army Number : 15306
Battalion : 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. Son of Enock and Myrah Clarke, of 48 Morven Street, Creswell, Derbyshire. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Worksop, Nottinghamshire. He went to France on 16th March 1915 and was killed in action, 19th June 1915, by German shellfire, whilst serving in the trenches near La Gorge, France.
Buried : Neuve-Chapelle British Cemetery, France. Special Memorial 4.
Private Thomas Edward Clarke is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Titchfield Park War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Creswell War Memorial, Creswell, Derbyshire.
St Swithun’s Church War Memorial, Retford, Nottinghamshire
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
His brother Private Vincent Clarke, 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War,.