No.24048, Lance Corporal, Hugh Cuthbert CLARK
Aged 23
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Hugh Cutherbert CLARK was born in Cavendish (Sudbury Q1-1893 4A:757), son of Hugh and Ellen CLARK (née AMBROSE)
1901 census...Aged 8, he was at Grocers Shop, High Street, Cavendish with his father Hugh CLARK [50] grocer/draper born Wilby, Suffolk; his mother Ellen [46]; sisters Kathleen M [20] and Mary G [10]; brother Ambrose F [15] (grocer's assistant). All except his father were born in Cavendish 1911 census...Aged 18, grocer's assistant, he was still at the Grocer's Shop, High Street, Cavendish with his parents and sister Kathleen Mary His legatees were sisters Kathleen and Mary and brother Ambrose, whose address in 1917 was 025608 Private Ambrose Clark c/o A.O.C, H.M. Gun Wharf, Chatham |
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He enlisted in Cavendish.
from Lt Col Murphy's "History of the Suffolk Regiment: The 7th Suffolks took over trenches west of Pozières on 3rd August. On the 8th the Germans captured about 80 yards of Ration Trench but that evening the Battalion retook it and gained an additional 200 yards. The CWGC records that the battalion lost 50 killed on the 9th August 1916, only 7 having identified graves. |
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