Robert Clark

Forename(s):
Robert

Surname:
Clark

Initial(s):
R

Service Number:
33337

Rank:
Private

Regiment:
York & Lancaster Regiment, 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion Territorial Force

Died:
09/10/1917

Aged:
28

Buried:
Tyne Cot Memorial (Tyne Cot Cemetery)

Service History:
Enlisted at Alnwick, Northumberland.

Background:
Born in 1889, at Hepple, Northumberland, the son of Henry & Jane Clark. Clark's mother died when he was aged 2.

In 1891 he was living at East Hepple Farm Cottages with his widowed father, Henry (45; a Farm Servant) & siblings William (19; a Shepherd); John (16, a Farm Servant); Isabella (14); Henry G. (13); Thomas (11); James (9); & Jane (5). In 1901 Clark was living at West Hall, Hepple with his father (then, described as an Agricultural Labourer), & sister Isabella.

By 1911, Clark, then 22, was working as a Farm Labourer & living at Catchburn, Morpeth with his married sister, Isabella & her husband, John Monaghan (b. about 1875; a Coal Miner) & their 7-month-old daughter, also Isabella. Brother Thomas (aged 31; a Farm Labourer) also lived with them.

In 1914, Clark married Janet Rogerson. On 'Soldiers Died...' he is listed as residing at Whittingham. Janet was named as his widow in the UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 & a child was also noted but not named.

Local Memorial:
Whittingham & Callaly 1914-1918 Memorial Stone in Whittingham Memorial Hall (Source: newmp.org.uk)