Clark, Alfred J

SurnameClark
ForenameAlfred James
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Date of Death19th May 1918
Place of Death
CemeteryAbancourt, France
Grave ReferenceIC 13
OccupationAgricultural Labouror
Serial Number142483
RegimentArmy Service Corps transfered to the 197th Area Labour Employment Coy. Labour Corps
RankPrivate
SpouseEllen Clarke of The Rookery ( now Kilkonnon ? ), Up Nateley
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Noted on this memorial – https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/40411 in St Stephens in Up Natley.

The wiki entry for the church notes :

St Stephen’s Church includes a memorial to Alfred James Clark. Clark had joined the Army in 1914. In 1916, the hospital where he had been a patient was bombed. When erected, the memorial was unusual, being the second such one-man memorial in the UK.

The altar cloth has a mysterious inscription to the fallen of the Great War. It lists sixteen names of servicemen who are from different regiments, different parts of the country, and who died in different places. The association between them is unclear.

Alfred enlisted in Hartley Wintney in the Packers and Loaders Corp on the 6th of May 1916.