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Pte. John "Nobby" Clarke
British Army Denbighshire Yeomanry
from:Cae Blyddyn Farm, Treuddyn, Mold, Flintshire
John Clarke known as Nobby joined the Denbighshire Yeomanry with his cousin in 1913 as a territorial army private. It was the only way he could get time off from working on the farm, for a holiday. He took his own horse with him.
I have been told that he taught men to ride horses in the initial stages of the war. He took his own horse to the war and brought it home with him at the end of the war. A lucky escape unless this has been changed over time and he brought a horse home from the war. He only returned home a couple of times as he could not face his mother and how upset she was at his returning to the war. He survived the war and only suffered a broken arm as a physical injury and shell shock. I have been told that he swam across a lake and freed some of his regiment who were captured.