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Frederick Clarke enlisted on 10th of December 1916 and was assigned to the Leicestershire Regiment.
He was living at at The Furlongs, Barkby Road, Syston, Leicestershire and was employed in the Family Market Gardening business owned by his father, Robert Clarke, together with his 2 brothers. Frederick was 24 years 6 months old and was 5 feet 8 and a quarter inches tall. His next of kin was his father Robert Clarke. He was mobilised on 27th January 1917 and after training was transferred to the 10th Cheshire Regiment and sent to France on 3rd of May 1917.
He was killed in action on 7th June 1917 in Belgium at the Battle of Messines and is buried in the Messines Ridge British Cemetery. He was a private and his regimental number was 50871. His records list his father Robert Clarke, Fanny Clarke, his mother, his 2 brothers, Arthur Bernard Clarke and George Edgar Clarke all living at The Furlongs, Barkby Road, Syston, and his sister Ethel Kate Allen of 23, Sidney Road, Leicester. He was born in 1891 in Burton Bandalls, a hamlet near Burton on the Wolds, Leicestershire and was not married.
Frederick Clarke was the grandson of Robert Clarke, my 2 times Great Grandfather and cousin to my Grandmother, Elsie Lowe nee Parnell.