A. C. Clarke (Alfred Charles Clarke) Service no 453028 Rifleman, London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles), 2nd/11th Battalion Died age 22 on 6 November 1917 Son of William and Eliza Clarke, of 18 Wilkinson Street, Albert Square, Clapham Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium Information from the 1911 census In 1911 the Clarke family occupied 8 rooms at 18 Wilkinson Street, London SW8. William Clarke, 52, a plaster model maker at a terracotta works (possibly this was Doulton's on Albert Embankment) from Burbage in Leicestershire, and Eliza Clarke, 50, from Whitwick, Leicestershire, had 9 children, all of whom survived. The household was full on the night of the census: Gertrude Eliza Clarke, 22, born in Hathern, Leicestershire Elisa Maryann Clarke, 18, a book folder, born in West Bromwich Alfred Charles Clarke, 15, a grocer's assistant, born in Lambeth Albert Thomas Clarke, 11, born in Lambeth Maud Beetrace [sic] Clarke, 10, born in Lambeth Doris Lilian Clarke, 5, born in Lambeth Annie Clarke, 26, visiting from America (married to one of Alfred Charles' brothers) Getrude Annie Clarke, 2, Annie's daughter, born in America Philip Lindsey Clark, 22, single, a sculptor, born in Brixton, a boarder Emma Paul, 49, a single lady from Loughborough, was visiting as was Hannah Duplex, 78, a widow from Loughborough. |
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Alfred Charles Clarke |