Studio portrait of 109 Sapper Clive Gordon Clarke, 1st Divisional Signal Company from Caulfield, ...

Studio portrait of 109 Sapper Clive Gordon Clarke, 1st Divisional Signal Company from Caulfield, Victoria. A 20 year old clerk prior to enlisting on 9 August 1914, he had been dux of All Saints Grammar School in St Kilda and was further educated at Stott and Hoare's Business College. He had been in the school cadets and was a signaller with the Citizens' Forces Engineers. He embarked for overseas as a driver from Melbourne on 20 October 1914 aboard HMAT Karroo but later reverted to sapper. He was in the first camp at Mene in Egypt and was in the first landing at Gallipoli as a signaller. After four months at Gallipoli, he was invalided out to Egypt where he later served as a despatch rider in the Sinai desert. He served in France for 18 months before being killed in action at Ypres, Belgium on 8 November 1917. Sapper Clarke is buried in the Reninghelst New Military Cemetery, Belgium.