231073 Pte. William Wallace Edmund Messenger Clark British Army 14th (London Scottish) Btn. London Regiment. from:Gool Mansions, Bombay (d.1st July 1916) I work in the archives at Sherborne School and I am researching former pupils who died in WW1, one of whom was William Wallace Edmund Messenger Clark (1895-1916). I believe William was born on 15th of November 1895 in Lambeth, London, UK, the son of Edmund Francis Clark and Georgina Clark. William first attended Sherborne Preparatory School and in September 1911 was enrolled at Sherborne School. The admission register gives his parents names and address as Edmund Francis Clark and Mrs G. Clark, Gool Mansions, Bombay, and his guardian as Miss Clark, Benares. I have just found out the Edmund Francis Clark was born around 1869 and died around 1919. He was a hotel manager and a member of the Lodge of Fraternity & Perseverance in Benares (a member of the Masons). William left Sherborne School in December 1913 and in December 1915 joined the London Scottish Battalion, London Regiment, as a despatch carrier. He was last seen on 1 July 1916 in the fourth line of the German trenches. In 1919, William's mother, by then Mrs Holmes of Mall View, Mussorie, wrote to the School informing them of her son's death. William is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial at the Somme, and on the Sherborne School War Memorial. I wondered whether someone might know if he is also commemorated in India? Details from our Book of Remembrance are available online.
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