Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
Date of death
27 April 1918
Age of death
23
Address
7 Forest View
Leytonstone
WFT
E11 3AP
Address source
1911 Census
Local memorial
Cemetery / Memorial
France
Biography
Tom Lambert Clark was born in Bow in 1894. He was the oldest of ten children born to Thomas and Georgina Clark.
In 1911, Tom was 16 and living in the family home at 7 Forest View, Leytonstone. He was working as a fish monger.
Tom enlisted with the 9th (County of London) Battalion (Queen Victoria’s Rifles). He was sent to the Western Front, where he died of his wounds on 27th April 1918, and was buried in Crouy British Cemetery, Picardie, France.
Research by Redbridge Museum
Sources:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Ancestry.com