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CLARK, Henry Claude
(Service number 7/567)

Pte Henry Claude Clark — (Nelson Provincial Museum, Tyree Studio Collection: 84024 )

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	28/09/1889	Place of Birth	Timaru, Canterbury

Enlistment Information

Date	25 August 1914	Age	27 years
Address at Enlistment	Maitai Valley, Nelson
Occupation	Clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	C. H. CLARK (father), The Maitai, Nelson
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 7½ inches. Complexion medium. Eyes blue. Hair dark brown.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	(1) Main Body; (2) 8th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	(1) Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date	(1) 16 October 1914; (2) 13 November 1915
Transport	(1) Tahiti; (2) Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Lyttelton, Christchurch, Canterbury	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; War Medal 1939-1945; New Zealand War Service Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	21 October 1919	Reason	No longer physically for for war service on account of illnesses contracted on active service.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Appendicitis. 11 April 1915 admitted to hospital (Alexandria?). 15 May 1915 invalided to New Zealand aboard Willochra. 21 May 1916 transferred to Alexandria by Hospital Ship Grantully Castle. 25 May 1916 admitted 15th General Hospital, Montazali. 12 June 1916 discharged from hospital & posted to regimental unit at Tel el Keri, 12 Reinforcements, J Company.18 May 1918 admitted to 31st General Hospital, Port Said, with heat exhaustion (marching from Cairo to Port Said).

Post-war Occupations

Insurance employee

Death

Date	2 August 1967	Age	77 years
Place of Death	Nelson
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Marsden Valley Cemetery, Nelson
Memorial Reference	RSA Section, Block 02D, Plot 1
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Henry Claude Clark was the son of Claude Haughton Haffenden and Mary Frances (née Freer) Clark. Henry suffered appendicitis when he was due to land at Gallipoli and so didn't land. He married Ivy Louisa Moulder in 1926. He served in the National Reserve from 1940 to 1945, then was discharged for health reasons. His brothers George Harold Freer Clark and Percy Macquarie Clark also served in World War One.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [23 January 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [23 January 2017]

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