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Pte. William Edwin Clarke
British Army 9th Btn Essex Regiment
from:Leicester
Uncle Ted Clarke, my father's brother survived the war at age 17/18 with shrapnel embedded in his brain. This caused some paralysis, and later in life, seizures. After being wounded, possibly at the Battle of Epehy. He was transferred to Napesbury Hospital, the County of Middlesex War Hospital, in September 1918. He was kind and gentle, and the one time he became annoyed was when I suggested war was exciting. (I was very young.) I have a series of post cards he sent from the front to his mother and sisters. He could not work very much, but I remember having fun riding in a department store elevator he was operating.
