Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Simeon, a Felt Hat Maker, and his wife Elizabeth Ann. Simeon was educated at Nuneaton and Hinckley Church Schools and was a Gardener. He enlisted on the 3rd September 1914 and embarked for France on the 22nd December, and was wounded in action near La Bassee on the 24th January 1915, he died from his wounds on the 26th January. He was buried at Bethune. Sergeant V. White wrote, “A Private Clarke was badly hit by a sniper on the 24th January 1915, and your son went to his assistance, when he was shot, probably by the same sniper, through the wrist and stomach.” Simeon was unmarried.