Clark James Gavin Pte 4457972

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Name Clark James Gavin
Army number 4457972
Rank Pte
Decorations
Date of birth
Age 0
Unit Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date, Trf Black Watch 1/2/1940, Posted 1 TS, Posted ? Bn Black Watch, Class W Army Reserve 13/12/45, PTH 1952.
Company/Battery C
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role
Joined Brigade
Promotions
Wounded
Prisoner of War 20B, 9649
Died/Killed in action
Home address 78, Cuthbert Avenue, Sherburn Estate, Durham City
Source table 1TS

The photograph below is of C Company, one of a series, taken at the Burt Terrace Cricket Ground in Gateshead, just before the 1st Tyneside Scottish embarked to join the British Expeditionary Force in France. It is thought to have been taken on 12th April 1940. Five weeks later, many of the men in this picture had either been captured as Prisoners of War, or killed in action.

Pte Clark is circled on the right of the group, three rows from the rear