Commemorated: | |||
| 1. Memorial: | The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour | 9A GQS | |
Awards & Titles: | |||
Service Life:
Campaigns:
- The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.
| Unit / Ship / Est.: 11th Field Ambulance |
| Action : Natural Causes |
Natural causes is attributed those deaths due to causes that were not directly associated with the war. Included in this are wartime deaths resulting from, for example, theSpanish Influenza pandemic and its associated pneumonia problems and other attributions such as age and exhaustion. It also groups those who through Post Traumatic Stress committed suicide as a result of their experiences.
Previous Service: Royal Canadian Engineers, Royal Engineers, Imperial Yeomanry and as a Sergeant, Royal Garrison Artillery, Halifax, Canada (1903).
Henry “Harry” Clarke was born on 26 August 1878 in Rochester (Old Brompton), Kent, England and is the son of Joseph and Sophia Matilda Clarke. He served in the Imperial Amy in the West Indies in 1897, served in the South African Campaign as a Sergeant, and in 1903 with The Royal Garrison Artillery in Halifax, NS. He was then discharged from the Royal Engineers, No 654 as a Lance Corporal, in Halifax on 14 November 1905, with exemplary service, skilled painter and a good cook, and in 1907, he was in The Royal Canadian Engineers as a Corporal in Halifax, NS. In 1911, he was single and living in the South Barracks, in Halifax. He was married to Eliza Emma Clarke about 1912 and after the war, she lived at 100, Fernlea Road., Balham, London, England.
He died of sickness (Carcinoma of the Stomach) while in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 23 March 1919. He is buried in Royal Standard Freemason’s lot at Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax.
He previously was overseas in the South African Campaign and was awarded the Queen’s South Africa Medal. For his part in the Great War he was awarded the 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, and Victory Medal.
Masonic :
| Type | Lodge Name and No. | Province/District : |
|---|---|---|
| Mother : | A Scottish Lodge No. 0 S.C. | Scottish Constitution |
| Joined : | Royal Standard No. 398 E.C. | Montreal & Halifax |
Initiated | Passed | Raised |
14th March 1903 | 14th March 1903 | 14th March 1903 |
Henry Clark joined from Lodge 606 in the Scottish Constitution on 14th March 1903, but was cleared from the Royal Standard Lodge on 30th November 1905. He was a Sergeant but roll has Corporal.
He mother Lodge was Rosslyn St Clair, No 606 Scottish Constitution.
He joined Royal Standard Lodge and was: Initiated on 14th March 1903; Passed on 14 March 1903; Raised on 14 March 1903. He was cleared from the Royal Standard Lodge on 30th November 1905.
The names of those brethren who fell are taken from the monument formerly located in the foyer of the Masonic Hall on Barrington Street, which now resides in the banquet room of the Masonic Hall on Coronation Avenue in Halifax, NS.
Source :
The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- The (UK) National Archives
- Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
- ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry
Additional Source:
- Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
- Researcher : Bruce Littley