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• Name CLARKE
• Initials R
• First name RICHARD
• Place of birth Newfoundland
• Country Canada
• Family Son of Henry and Jane Clark
• Extra info Husband of Elizabeth Clarke, of Brookside St., Glace Bay, Nova Scotia

Military service

• Service number 478587
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 2nd Bn. Canadian Pioneers
• Division - Brigade Pioneers
• Army - Corps - Division 2nd Canadian Division
• National force C.E.F.

Death

• Wounded He was proceeding with his Company into Voormezele about 1 A.M. on the morning of April 20th 1916, and just as they were coming out of a communication trench Private Clarke was hit by a machine gun bullet.
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wound abdomen at n°10 CCS.
• Date of death 22 April 1916
• Died at the age of 35
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VI - D - 1A

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