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World War I - Yarmouth Connections
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Ralph Burton Clark
734277
Private
112th Battalion; 25th Battalion
October 24, 1895
Yarmouth, NS
March 13, 1916
20
Yarmouth NS
Yarmouth NS
5 feet, 7 inches
dark
brown
black
29th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, Yarmouth NS
Single
Waiter
Methodist
Mrs Louise Clark (Mother), Yarmouth, NS
July 20, 1919
June 23, 1924
Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth NS
Ralph B. Clark was the son of Alexander B Clarke and Louise Earle (Whitehouse). The family lived
on Forest St., Yarmouth.
Private Clark enlisted with the 112th Battalion at Yarmouth, NS. He arrived in England on the SS
Olympic July 31, 1916 and was transferred to the 25th Battalion at Bramshott for service in France on
October 11, 1916. On April 16, 1917 he was admitted to St John Ambulance Hospital for one day with a
slight wound. He returned to the 25th Battalion and was again wounded by a gun shot wound to the left
wrist on May 15, 1917 and admitted to the Canadian Convalescent Hospital at Epsom. He was
discharged from Hospital on May 24, 1917 and taken on strength with the 17th Reserve Battalion at
Bramshott.
He was assigned to Rhyl on October 10, 1918, 1919. On February 1, 1919 he became ill with
influenza and was admitted to the Military Hospital at Kimmel Park. On July 5, 1919 he was returned to
Canada and discharged on July 20, 1919.
Clark Private Clark died at Yarmouth on June 23, 1924 of pulmonary tuberculous, the result of
service during World War I. He was 28 years of age.
Ralph Burton Clark
photo: Wartime Heritage 2018