Private Vincent Clarke
Army Number : 19800 (formerly 11528 Leicestershire Regiment)
Battalion : 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. Son of Enock and Myrah Clarke, of 48 Morven Street, Creswell, Derbyshire. he enlisted at Worksop, Nottinghamshire and went to France 16th March 1916 and was killed in action, 9th August 1916, during a gas attack near areas whilst with the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Commemorated : Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.
Private Vincent 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 Thomas Edward Clarke, 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.