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Clark Cecil Roy

Born 21^st June 1896 Hobart Tasmania the son of Thomas Sabine and Annie Clark (nee Flowers) a bricklayer he embarked Brisbane 29^th June 1915 on board “HMAT Aeneas” with the 26^th Infantry Battalion. 

On 18^th December 1915 he was appointed Tempory Corporal on the Gallipoli Peninsula and to Sergeant 5^th February 1918 in France. 

Sgt Clark was killed in action 9^th August 1918 in France and is commemorated in the Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, Amiens Harbonnieres Area, France. 

The parents of the late Sergeant C. R. Clark have received the following letter from Major A. 0. Wood Since himself killed):-

Dear Mrs. Clark, "Will you please accept the deepest sympathy of all officers, N.C.O's., and men of C Company in your sad loss of your gallant son. Sergeant C. R. Clark. He had been in my company for a long time and was one of the bravest men I have known. For any work that needed a good, cool, brave man to do, Sergeant Clark would always volunteer. He was really an exceptionally game chap and was one of my best sergeants. As long as I have known him he was always the same. It was in the great attack on the 8th and 9th of August that he was killed and it was only by the great example set by such men, and their courage and determination that the attack was such a great success. You have one great consolation in the fact that your very gallant son's .life was taken for the great cause we are fighting for and that he died a glorious death leading his platoon into action. Anything further I can do for you I shall only be too happy to do.

The Mercury 15^th October 1918

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