Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch  
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26/12/2018 Deeply regretted by his grandmother, aunts and nephews, Oldtown Street, Cookstown.
26/12/2018 His resting place a soldier’s grave.’
26/12/2018 His heart was kind, his spirit brave,
26/12/2018 And gave his life to save us all.
26/12/2018 ‘He proudly answered his country’s call
26/12/2018 CLARKE – In affectionate remembrance of William John Clarke No 20760, C Company, Machine Gun Section, 6/7 Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, 15th Division, British Expeditionary Force, killed in action in France on 27th December 1916.
26/12/2018
26/12/2018 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 5th January 1918:
06/07/2017 Private William Clark has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel 3C on the Thiepval Memorial in France.
06/07/2017 Private William Clark was serving with the 6/7th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers when killed in action on Wednesday 27th December 1916.
06/07/2017 William Clark enlisted with the Royal Scots Fusiliers in Irvine, Ayrshire.
06/07/2017 William lived in Scotland.
06/07/2017 William Clark was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone.
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