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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Guildford
• Land Surrey, England
• Family Son of Walter and Emma M. Clark, of Guildford.
• Education Northcote, Winchester; a silver medalist
  of the Royal Academy
• Profession Clerk
• Extra info Flying certificate taken on Maurice Farman Biplane, at Military School, Shoreham, 29 October 1915

Military service

• Rank Captain
• Regiment and unit 6th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
• Other data related to military career Joining the Artists' Rifles at the outbreak of war, he was gazetted to the Middlesex Regiment in December, 1914. Subsequently he was transferred to the R.F.C., and obtained his pilot's certificate in February, 1916. He was promoted to Captain in November, 1916.

Death

• Wounded Artillery patrol; air collision of RE8 A4594 with A4198, 6000 feet, nose dive, wrecked; the observer, HS Diment, was also killed and buried in Lijssenthoek; Lt. Brodie and Lt. McKimmie also crashed and died; they are buried in Lijssenthoek;
• Type of wounds Killed in flying accident
• Died at the age of 27
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery X - A - 34

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