Source: Duty Nobly Done Roll of Honour
Underage. Born February 20, 1900.
“Private Clark arrived in England on October 28, 1916. He had enlisted with the 160th Bruce Battalion and was Taken off Strength from them and was posted to the 4th Reserve Battalion at the beginning of March 1918. He was then posted to the 18th Battalion then goes into France and then joins his unit in the field on April 12, 1918.
The weather on June 14th was fair and cool. The artillery carried out their usual harassing fire on the German infantry during the day. The enemy artillery was below normal with only light shelling near Ficheaux.
In the early morning hours, the artillery laid down a barrage in support of the 5th Infantry Brigade advancing on the enemy. The enemy came back with an artillery barrage of their own onto the front lines of the Brigade. During the day the Brigade artillery was active on the enemy forward areas.
It is believed that when the enemy artillery barrage was brought down was when Private Clark was seriously wounded. He received wounds to his head and to his arm which was fractured.
He was then admitted to No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital located about 15 miles away in Doullens. The next day, June 15th he was sent to No. 5 General Hospital located in Rouen and is then reported to be dangerously ill on June 16th and again on June 30th. On July 6th he is taken off dangerously ill list.
He is invalided back to England on the Hospital Ship Panama on July 7th with some of his skull removed and then admitted to King George Hospital located in London on July 9th. He is again reported to be dangerously ill on August 10th, seriously ill on August 12th and very seriously ill on August 15th.
On September 13 Private Clark was moved to No. 16 Canadian General Hospital at Orpington in London and is dangerously ill.
Private Clark had critical head wounds and during the evening of August 19th his temperature rose to 103 degrees and he lost consciousness and at 07:50 hours on September 20th, Private Clark lost the battle to live.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 