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First Mate Robert Richard Clarke

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Military service

Age: 53
Rank: First Mate
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Strathcona (Hamilton, Ontario) (110354)
Birth: January 1, 1864 Lowestoft, Suffolk, England
Death: April 13, 1917 North Atlantic

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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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Son of James Albert Clarke and Eliza Coleman, of Mutford, Suffolk, England. Husband of Ada Phoebe Stone, of Middlesbrough, England, Father of James Albert and Michael Clarke.

On 13 April 1917, Strathcona was sailing unescorted from the Tyne, England, to Marseille, France, when she was attacked by U-78, which had surfaced 145 miles (334 km) west-north-west of Ronaldsay, Scotland, in position 59°35'N/05°49'W. After a few shells were fired from the deck gun, a German crew scuttled the ship. Her captain, chief engineer and third engineer were taken prisoners of war. Nine crew members lost their lives.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 18 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL London, United Kingdom

THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL stands on the South side of the garden of Trinity Square, a hundred yards East of Mark Lane Station, and just within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and the Liberty of the Tower. It is at the hub of maritime England. Behind it are Trinity House and the offices of the Port of London Authority, and the Thames stretches before it; the wide space of Great Tower Hill, leading down from it to the river, is the traditional forum of merchant seamen and their fellow workers. Lloyd's is on the North, the Custom House and Billingsgate Market are near it on the West, and beyond the Tower, Eastwards, is the long line of the Docks the greatest dock system in the world.

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