Fallen Officer, Charles St. Aubyn Clarke
SECOND LIEUTENANT CHARLES ST. AUBYN CLARKE, Indian infantry, who died on July 30, 1918, of endocarditis, at the Station Hospital, Agra, aged 20, was the only surviving son of Captain Robert Clarke (staff), and Mrs. Robert Clarke, late of Thurcroft Hall, Yorkshire, and the Grandson of the late Major W. J. St. Aubyn, 24th Regiment, and of the late Mrs. St. Aubyn, of Exeter. He was educated at Malvern College, and joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in August 1915, obtaining a commission in the Machine Gun Corps in February, 1917. He saw service in France from July to beginning of October of the same year, and then returned to England, having exchanged into the Indian Army. He left for India in November, 1917. His elder brother, Lieutenant William A. St. Aubyn Clarke, R.N.D., was killed in action on December 30, 1917, in France, aged 20.