Service Details
Name:
 CLARK
Given Name:
 ERNEST VAUGHAN
Initials:
 E V
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Flying Corps
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Unit:
 20th Sqdn.
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Unit 2:
 and Royal Fusiliers
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Former Regiment:
 formerly Prince Alfred Guards
Date of Death:
 1917-11-29
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Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, as Bristol F2b pilot #A7253. Shot down in Moorslede sector north of Westroosebeke, Belgium. Plane set out on an Offensive Patrol and was seen chasing enemy aircraft in the vicinity of Passchendaele. Two hours later they were seen near Westroosebeke
Additional
Information:
Son of Alice Maude Clark, of The Croft, Redhouse, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and the late Ernest Vaughan Clark. Came from South Africa Aug., 1915. Proceeded to France Oct., 1915. On Cathcart War Memorial. In 2016 a report was submitted to CWGC to indicate with a lot of research that Clark and his observer Noon are buried in Plot 59 Row D Graves 46 &47 of Tyne Cot Cemetery.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL
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