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Warring Kennedy Clarke

In memory of:

Lieutenant Warring Kennedy Clarke

March 7, 1918

Military Service

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Field Artillery

Division:

8th Bde.

Additional Information

Son of Edward Frederick and Charlotte Elizabeth Clarke, of, Toronto.

Commemorated on Page 385 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

V. K. 20.

Location:

Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915. Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Circumstances of Death Registers– Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CHILD TO CLAYTON. Microform Sequence 20; Volume Number 31829_B016729. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 164. Page 965 of 1068. No further information on the Circumstances of the Death of Lieutenant Warring Kennedy Clarke could be found in his Digitized service file at http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B1765-S056.

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    Circumstances of Death Registers
    Circumstances of Death Registers – Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CHILD TO CLAYTON. Microform Sequence 20; Volume Number 31829_B016729. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 164. Page 965 of 1068. No further information on the Circumstances of the Death of Lieutenant Warring Kennedy Clarke could be found in his Digitized service file at http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B1765-S056.
  • Circumstances of Death Registers– As Lieutenant Lawrence Caffrey and Lieutenant Warring Kennedy Clarke were killed on the same day, March 7, 1918, and are buried in adjacent graves in ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY; Pas de Calais, France Grave Reference: V. K. 20., and V.K. 21, it is assumed the Circumstances of Death for both soldiers are the same. Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Cabana to Campling. Microform Sequence 17; Volume Number 31829_B016726. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 161. Page 47 of 1024.

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    Circumstances of Death Registers
    Circumstances of Death Registers – As Lieutenant Lawrence Caffrey and Lieutenant Warring Kennedy Clarke were killed on the same day, March 7, 1918, and are buried in adjacent graves in ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY; Pas de Calais, France Grave Reference: V. K. 20., and V.K. 21, it is assumed the Circumstances of Death for both soldiers are the same. Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Cabana to Campling. Microform Sequence 17; Volume Number 31829_B016726. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 161. Page 47 of 1024.
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Daily Colonist of April 10, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y106uvic/mode/1up?view=theater

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Daily Colonist of April 10, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y106uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
  • Grave marker– 1918-September 3403397 O-3270 PA-003166 Lt.-Col. George Ross, A.D.P.S. at grave of Lt. Warring Kennedy Clarke, 24th Battery CFA, the son of an old friend. (September, 1918.) ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY, MONT-ST. ELOI

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    Grave marker – 1918-September 3403397 O-3270 PA-003166 Lt.-Col. George Ross, A.D.P.S. at grave of Lt. Warring Kennedy Clarke, 24th Battery CFA, the son of an old friend. (September, 1918.) ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY, MONT-ST. ELOI
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Montreal Star c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Montreal Star c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper Clipping– In honoured memory.

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    Newspaper Clipping – In honoured memory.
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    Newspaper Clipping 2
  • Newspaper Clipping

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    Newspaper Clipping
  • Grave Marker– Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England

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    Grave Marker – Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England

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