Lieutenant Brian Lloyd Clarke, 23rd Indian Cavalry (Frontier Force), Indian Army. He was the third child of Lieutenant Colonel Sir Marshal James Clarke, KCMG, Royal Artillery, and Lady Annie Stacy Clarke (nee Lloyd), of The Eyrie, Wadhurst, Sussex. Baptised on 5 Nov 1888 in Lesotho. Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the Indian Army (unattached list) as a 2nd Lieutenant on 17 Aug 1908. Promoted to Lieutenant on 17 Nov 1909. He was attached to the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers 1907-08 and served in the Mohmand campaign (medal and clasp). He joined the 23rd Indian Cavalry (Frontier Force) in 1908. At the start of WW1 he was attached to the 15th Lancers with the 1st Indian Expeditionary Force. He was slightly wounded in the trenches in Dec 1914. He was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps in Jan 1915. He was killed in a flying accident near Hazebrouck, France when attached to 6 Sqn RFC as an observer on 19 Apr 1915. He was buried in Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery.
He is commemorated on the Durham University Roll of Service for WW1 (though Durham have no record of him attending the university - see\: http://www.universitiesatwar.org.uk/explore/clarke-bl) and on a memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
He is commemorated on the Durham University Roll of Service for WW1 (though Durham have no record of him attending the university - see\: http://www.universitiesatwar.org.uk/explore/clarke-bl) and on a memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
Lieutenant Brian Lloyd Clarke, 23rd Indian Cavalry (Frontier Force), Indian Army. He was the third child of Lieutenant Colonel Sir Marshal James Clarke, KCMG, Royal Artillery, and Lady Annie Stacy Clarke (nee Lloyd), of The Eyrie, Wadhurst, Sussex. Baptised on 5 Nov 1888 in Lesotho. Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the Indian Army (unattached list) as a 2nd Lieutenant on 17 Aug 1908. Promoted to Lieutenant on 17 Nov 1909. He was attached to the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers 1907-08 and served in the Mohmand campaign (medal and clasp). He joined the 23rd Indian Cavalry (Frontier Force) in 1908. At the start of WW1 he was attached to the 15th Lancers with the 1st Indian Expeditionary Force. He was slightly wounded in the trenches in Dec 1914. He was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps in Jan 1915. He was killed in a flying accident near Hazebrouck, France when attached to 6 Sqn RFC as an observer on 19 Apr 1915. He was buried in Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery.
He is commemorated on the Durham University Roll of Service for WW1 (though Durham have no record of him attending the university - see\: http://www.universitiesatwar.org.uk/explore/clarke-bl) and on a memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
He is commemorated on the Durham University Roll of Service for WW1 (though Durham have no record of him attending the university - see\: http://www.universitiesatwar.org.uk/explore/clarke-bl) and on a memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
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