| Regimental number | 244 |
| Place of birth | Perth, Western Australia |
| School | James Street State School, Perth, Western Australia |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
| Occupation | Printer |
| Address | 149 Beaufort Street, Perth, Western Australia |
| Marital status | Married |
| Age at embarkation | 26 |
| Height | 5' 6" |
| Weight | 121 lbs |
| Next of kin | Wife, Mrs Clark, Glebe, Adelaide Terrace, Perth, Western Australia |
| Previous military service | Served for 3 years in the Junior Cadets. |
| Enlistment date | |
| Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
| Place of enlistment | Blackboy Hill, Western Australia |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 16th Battalion, D Company |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/33/1 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A40 Ceramic on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 16th Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of death or wounding | Ypres, Belgium |
| Age at death | 29.6 |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 29 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 79 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: William and Margaret CLARK, 27 Stanley Street, Mount Lawley, Western Australia. Native of Perth, Western Australia |
| Family/military connections | Cousins: 3059 Pte Roy HOWELL, 10th Light Horse Regiment, returned to Australia, 15 February 1918; 2666 Pte Frank HOWELL, 54th Bn, returned to Australia, 27 August 1917. |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Proceeded to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 12 April 1915. Admitted to 1st Australian Stationary Hospital, Lemnos, 21 July 1915 (seborrhoea); rejoined unit, 3 August 1915. Admitted to hospital, Gallipoli, 5 August 1915; transferred to 1st Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, 10 August 1915; rejoined unit, Moascar, Egypt, 5 February 1916. Found guilty, 11 February 1916, of being drunk in Quai Mohammed Ali while on active service: awarded 2 days' Field Punishment No. 2 and forfeiture of 2 days' pay. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 1 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 9 June 1916. Wounded in action, 11 August 1916 (shell wound, neck); admitted to 1st Anzac Rest Station, 12 August 1916; rejoined unit, 15 August 1916. Admitted to 4th Australian Field Ambulance, 23 August 1917 (scabies); rejoined Bn, 11 September 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 28 September 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal After the war the Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, 5th Military District, investigated the claims of his widow. The report, October 1920, stated: 'I have to report making inquiries re Mrs K. Clark wife of the abovenamed soldier. Ascertained she was living with a man named Marshall for about 3 years, and in 1915 told Mrs Dugdale who was then Inspectress for State C[hildren's] Dept. that she was waiting for a bullet to be put into her husband so that she could marry Marshall, this she has since done. Mrs. Dugdale also reported that Mrs. Clark, now Marshall, was not fit to have charge of the children, and that she was keeping Marshall on money that should have been spent on the children. Mrs. Reed of Armadale, Mother of Mrs. Marshall (nee Clark) also stated that her daughter was not fit to have charge of the children ... Police report dated 12/8/20 states Marshall is of good character, wife not considered fit and proper person to have custody of the children, but in face of this report S.C. Dept. gave her the custody (on trial) of the two eldest girls, --- 14 years, and --- 12 years, on 15/9/20. The three youngest children ... are still under State control ... Mrs Marshall (nee Clark) is at present residing with her mother, Mrs Reed, Armadale, who either keeps a refreshment room or Wine Saloon.' |
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