In Memory Of

CLARK, ERNEST VAUGHAN

Service Details
Age:
 24
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
Unit:
 20th Sqdn.
Unit 2:
 and Royal Fusiliers
Regiment:
 Royal Flying Corps
Former Regiment:
 formerly Prince Alfred Guards
Date of Death:
 1917-11-29
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
Commemoration
Cemetery:
 ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
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.