Commemorated:

1. Memorial:The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour22A GQS
    

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Service Life:

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Unit / Ship / Est.: 1st King Edward's Horse 

Action : Post War 

Post War includes all operations in all theatres up to 31st August 1921. This excludes the campaign in Russia against the Bolsheviks. It also includes men who succombed to wounds post war and who died from various causes whilst still in the services but post war.

Detail :

Police Constable Albert Edmond CLARKE. Hong Kong Police Force. Served as Corporal 1405, Special Reserve, 1st King Edward’s Horse. Born 1889 at St Pancras, London, resided at Goole, Yorkshire.

On the 1st January, 1916 he disembarked at Plymouth from Hong Kong with many others from the Hong Kong Police with the purpose of serving their country in the Great War. He was aged 27 years and he gave his residence in England as 27 Park Terrace, Goole Yorkshire. He died of his wounds at is home 15/05/1919, which is at odds with the Masonic record.

He is buried at Goole Cemetery, Yorkshire and commemorated by the Royal Hong Kong Police Memorial as part of the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas.

Masonic :

TypeLodge Name and No.Province/District :
Mother : United Service No. 1341 E.C.Hong Kong & Far East

Initiated
Passed
Raised
8th October 1913
8th January 1914
19th February 1914
 

Listed as a 24 year old, Police Constable resident in Hong Kong upon his initiation in 1913. He appears, on the contribution record to have joined with three of his colleagues on the same day: DYKE, CAVE & HOWIHAN. No explicit war service is recorded for Albert, but the record shows that he "Died 31/1/1919."


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