Name: Service No Rank Battalion/Service Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Date of Enlistment: Age at Enlistment: Place of Enlistment: Address at Enlistment: Height: Complexion: Eye Colour: Hair Colour: Previous Military: Martial Status: Trade: Religion Next of Kin: Date of Discharge: Date of Death: Cemetery:

Ralph Burton Clark 734277 Private 112th Battalion; 25th Battalion October 24, 1895 Yarmouth, NS March 13, 1916 20 Yarmouth NS Yarmouth NS 5 feet, 7 inches Dark Brown Black 29th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, Yarmouth NS Single Waiter Methodist Mrs Louise Clark (Mother), Yarmouth, NS July 20, 1919 June 23, 1924 ( Death attributed to Wartime Service) Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth NS Ralph Burton Clark was the son of Alexander B Clarke (1870-1938) and Louise Earle (Whitehouse) Clark (b. 1869). The family lived on Forest St. in Yarmouth, NS. His siblings were Eva Clarke (b. 1892), Myrtle Clarke (b. 1900), Victor Gordon Clarke (1902-1959), Alexander Clark (b. 1903), Percy N Clarke (b. 1905), Laura May Clarke (b. 1910), L Jean Clarke (b. 1911), and George Clarke (b. 1913). Private Clark enlisted with the 112th Battalion at Yarmouth, NS. He arrived in England on the SS Olympic July 31, 1916, and was transferred to the 25th Battalion at Bramshott for service in France on October 11, 1916. On April 16, 1917, he was admitted to St John Ambulance Hospital for one day with a slight wound. He returned to the 25th Battalion and again suffered a gun shrapnel wound to the left wrist on May 15, 1917, and admitted to the Canadian Convalescent Hospital at Epsom. He was discharged from Hospital on May 24, 1917, and taken on strength with the 17th Reserve Battalion at Bramshott. He was assigned to Rhyl on October 10, 1918. On February 1, 1919, he became ill with influenza and was admitted to the Military Hospital at Kimmel Park. On July 5, 1919, he was returned to Canada and discharged on July 20, 1919. Private Clark died at Yarmouth on June 23, 1924, of pulmonary tuberculous, the result of service during World War I. He was 28 years of age.

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