Gervase Jesse Albert Clark
Memorial: Kingswood - Holy Trinity Church
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Silver War Badge, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 25086
Parents: Charlotte and Alfred Clark
Home address: Tower Road, Kingswood, Bristol
Pre-war occupation: Baker
Date of birth: 1894
Place of birth: Kingswood, Bristol
Date of death: 20/11/1916
Buried/Commemorated at: Buried at Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel, Hessen, Germany and commemorated on Kingswood Holy Trinity Memorial and Kingswood Methodist Memorial
Age: 22
Further information:
Gervase was born in Kingswood the son of a bootmaker and the eldest child of six with three sisters and two brothers. One of his younger brothers Ernest, who was in the Navy, died the following year in the service of his country.
Gervase's battalion (the 10th) mobilised to France in August 1915 and fought in various actions on the Western Front including The Battle of Loos. Gervase died of wounds during The Battle of the Somme (1 Jul 1916 – 18 Nov 1916) the outcome of which was indecisive. Gervase was one of 420,000 British casualties of this battle and was initially buried in Goettingen Military Cemetery Hanover then reburied after the armistice at Hessen.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/