War Memorials, - Elsewhere Sheffield, - King Edward VII School

The First World War Memorial in King Edward V!! School, Sheffield
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Photo : Rob Price of the War Memorials On Line website

The First World War Memorial in King Edward V!! School, Sheffield, is a large bronze plaque mounted on the wall within the main entrance of the Upper School. The plaque bears the names of 92 former Edwardian scholars who fell in the First World War.

1 Officer of the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated on this memorial.

2nd Lieutenant James Henry Fisher Clarke . 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 1 July 1916.
Buried DANTZIG ALLEY BRITISH CEMETERY.
The following biographical notes are provided by Robert Coulson in his Biographies of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"James Clarke was born in 1894 and was a scholar at Worksop College and King Edward VII school in Sheffield.
When he enlisted he was studying at Edinburgh University with a view to embarking on a career in medicine.
He arrived at Boulogne with the 7th Battalion on 14 July 1915 and was wounded in action at the end of the month whilst in the La Clytte area.
He served in the Ypres salient in late 1915, spending time in the Voormezeele area and Christmas Day of that year billeted in the ramparts of Ypres town.
Spring 1916 saw the battalion involved in the Actions of the Bluff just outside Ypres, and in June they moved down to the Somme.
On 1 July 1916 2nd Lt Clarke attacked with the battalion towards the village of Fricourt at 2-30 p.m. where “officers and men were literally mown down”. He was killed in this action at the age of 21."

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