Service Details
Name:
 CLARK
Given Name:
 WILLIAM EVAN
Initials:
 W E
Rank:
 Second Officer
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Regiment:
 Merchant Navy
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Unit:
 S.S. Ceramic (Southampton)
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Date of Death:
 1942-12-06
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Date of Death 2:
 1942-12-07
Date of Birth:
 1910-11-30
Age:
 32
Cause of Death:
 Torpedoed and sunk by U-515. En route from Liverpool for St. Helena, Durban & Sydney
Additional
Information:
Son of William and Eleanor Evelyn Clark; husband of Norah Evelyn Clark, of Durban, Natal, South Africa. Master Mariner, Merchant Navy. Ex-cadet of the South African Training Ship General Botha. Born Durban. Educated Mansfield Road School, Durban; Cadet draft 1925/26. In 1927 joined the Union Castle Mail Steamship Co. As Cadet and served in the Merchant Navy until 29 October 1942, when he was released to join the SANF. He was on his way out from England on priority passage to take up the post of Lieutenant, SANF, since he could not be attested in London, when the Ceramic, on which he was travelling, was torpedoed and sunk, and he lost his life on 7 December 1942.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 London
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Cemetery:
 TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 25.

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