Sergeant LEO CLARKE
Canadian Infantry
2nd Bn.
Died 19 October 1916
Age 24 years old
- Country of Service Canadian
- Awards Victoria Cross
- Additional Info Son of Henry Trevelyan Clarke and Rossetta Caroline Nona Clarke, of 785, Pine St., Winnipeg, Manitoba.
- Personal Inscription AND SO SHALL WE EVER BE WITH THE LORD 1 THESS. CHAPT. 4 17
- Additional Citation note
An extract from "The London Gazette," No. 29802, dated 24th Oct., 1916, records the following:-"For most conspicuous bravery. He was detailed with his section of bombers to clear the continuation of a newly-captured trench and cover the construction of a "block." After most of his party had become casualties, he was building a block when about twenty of the enemy with two officers counter-attacked. He boldly advanced against them, emptied his revolver into them and afterwards two enemy rifles which he picked up in the trench. One of the officers then attacked him with the bayonet, wounding him in the leg, but he shot him dead. The enemy then ran away, pursued by Acting Corporal Clarke, who shot four more and captured a fifth."
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