CLARKE Albert

Additional information on the roll of honour: Bomdr Royal Field Artillery M.M.

Berrow’s Worcester Journal, Saturday 22nd June 1918:
GUNNER’S BRAVERY SAVES A DUMP
Mr and Mrs G. Clarke, of 16 Church Walk, St Clement’s, Worcester, have received from their son, Gunner A. Clarke (who is serving with the R.F.A. in France), a card of commendation sent to him by the General of his division. It reads as follows: “To Gunner A. Clarke, R.F.A. – I wish to place on record my appreciation of the conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty displayed by you on the night of 20-21st May, 1918. When the camouflage and some charges were set on fire by a direct hit on one of the pits, although ordered to get under cover, you rushed forward and put out the fire at great personal risk, thereby preventing the explosion of the main dump.” Gunner Clarke has now been awarded the Military Medal. Before the war he was employed at the G.W.R. Sheet Department, and is an old St Clement’s schoolboy. He joined up in September, 1914, and has served in France and Italy, having been overseas since April 1915. During that time he has been home once.