Clarke Samuel L/Cpl 3061034
Personnel Entry
Name Clarke Samuel
Army number 3061034
Rank L/Cpl
Decorations
Date of birth
Age 0
Unit Joined the Royal Scots, no enlistment date as yet. Transferred to the Black Watch 25/9/1940, BW358/4/84, Posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish. Served Iceland? Served Normandy. Posted to the 1st Bn Black Watch - possibly on the disbanding of 70th Brigade. KILLED in ACTION NW Europe 19/7/44, Serial No. 391.
Company/Battery
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role
Joined Brigade Probably 25/9/1940.
Promotions
Wounded
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action 19-Jul-44.
Home address Son of David and Jane Martin Clarke, husband of Alice Clarke of Elphinstone, East Lothian. Buried Grave III.B.13. St Manvieu War Cemetery, Cheux.
Source table 1TS
Sam Clarke is mentioned in Dr Tom Renouf's autobiography "Black Watch".
