DAVID CLARKE

David is not remembered on the war memorial at Christchurch Park.

Born: 1903, Ipswich.

Died: 30th September 1941; age: 39.

Residence: 189, Bramford Lane, Ipswich.

Rank: Driver; Service Number: T/50231.

Regiment: Royal Army Service Corps, 3rd Reserve, Mechanical Transport Coy.

Grave Reference:

Row B. Grave 4.

Pietermaritzburg (Fort Napier) Cemetery,

South Africa.

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of George Ernest & Annie Clarke, of 105, Parliament Road, Ipswich; husband of Millicent Lucy Clarke, of Ipswich.

CENSUS

1911   21, Beck Street, Ipswich.

David was 8 years old and living with his parents and sisters.

George Ernest Clarke, 43, a Gardener – Domestic, born Stoke Ash, Suffolk.

Annie Clarke (nee Prentice), 35, born Needham Market, Suffolk.

Annie Doris Clarke, 12, born Ipswich.

Elsie May Clarke, 11, born Ipswich.

1 boarder.

In 1924, Ipswich, David married Millicent Lucy Scarlett, born 1905, Playford, Suffolk – daughter of George Sydney Scarlett, a horseman on a farm, and Florence Maud Scarlett (nee Sawyer), of 1, Grove Cottages, Ipswich.

Millicent and David had three children:

Doreen J. Clarke, born 1925, Ipswich.

George E. Clarke, born October 1927, Ipswich.

Donald C. Clarke, born 1931, Ipswich.