In Memory Of

CLARK, ROSS ASHWORTH

Service Details
Age:
 25
Date of Birth:
 1981-07-18
Rank:
 Lance Bombardier
Unit:
 29 Cdo Regt
Regiment:
 Royal Regiment of Artillery
Date of Death:
 2007-03-03
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, during a rocket attack in the Sangin area of Helmand province
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Alternative Commemoration until grave found
Cemetery:
 ARMED FORCES MEMORIAL AT THE NATIONAL ARBORETUM
Localitly:
 Staffordshire
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Born in Zimbabwe and brought up in South Africa before joining the British Army in April 2002. Also served in Iraq, and on exercises in Norway, Belize and the US, and was deployed to Afghanistan on operations in September 2006. He was the 50th British solider to die in Afghanistan. He went to a Somerset West Private School, where he was head boy, and went on to Stellenbosch University, where he was a student representative council spokesperson.