Private Frederick Benjamin CLARKE
Remembrance - The Yorkshire Regiment, First World War
Private Frederick Benjamin CLARKE, 2359.
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Private Frederick Benjamin CLARKE

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Private Frederick Benjamin CLARKE, 2359.

8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Formerly 156867 R F A. Son of John and Elizabeth Clarke; husband of Beatrice S. Watling (formerly Clarke), of 3, Fitzilian Avenue, Harold Wood, Essex. Killed 7 June 1917. Aged 24.
Born Diss (Norfolk), Enlisted Bury St. Edmunds, Resided Stuston (Scole, Suffolk).
Commemorated on Panel 33, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.

The photo of Frederick Benjamin Clarke was obtained by Peter Clarke from a cutting in the Norwich Mercury, dated Saturday September 29th 1917, held in the Newspaper Archive at the Norfolk County Library.
Additionally, Peter Clarke has provided a great deal of additional biographical information on Frederick Benjamin Clarke, which can be read on his page in the Flickr photostream.