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Hoyland Nether (St. Peter) Churchyard Extension
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The Clarke Family Grave in Hoyland Nether (St. Peter) Churchyard Extension
The Clarke Family Grave in Hoyland Nether (St. Peter) Churchyard Extension
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Hoyland Nether (St. Peter) Churchyard Extension, Barnsley, contains 14 Commonwealth War Graves (all for the First World War) together with 16 family graves which commemorate a soldier who lost his life in the First World War.
Amongst the latter graves is one that commemorates an Officer of the Yorkshire Regiment.

We are very grateful to Wayne Bywater (<waynetyke123@aol.com>) for photographing this family memorial.

2nd Lieutenant James Henry Fisher Clarke . 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 1 July 1916.
Buried DANTZIG ALLEY BRITISH CEMETERY.

2nd Lieutenant James Henry Fisher Clarke
2nd Lieutenant James Henry Fisher Clarke

For a larger view of the Clarke Family headstone which opens in a new window, select one of the images above.

To the Memorry of / NELLY / THE DEARLY LOVED WIFE OF / CHARLES CLARKE / OF HOYLAND NETHER
AND DAUGHTER OF THE LATE / HENRY FISHER, HILL VIEW, WOLVERHAMPTON
BORN JANY 7 1866 / DIED SEPT 30 1894.
"REST IN THE LORD AND WAIT PATIENTLY FOR HIM. PS. 37 7"
ALSO OF JAMES HENRY FISHER CLARKE
(2ND LIEUT. YORKSHIRE REGIMENT)
SON OF THE ABOVE CHARLES AND NELLY
BORN SEPT 16TH 1894, KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE
JULY 1ST 1916
ALSO CHARLES CLARKE / BORN APRIL 25TH 1865. DIED JANUARY 4TH 1922.

The following biographical notes are provided by Robert Coulson in his Biographies of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"James Clarke was born in 1894 and was a scholar at Worksop College and King Edward VII school in Sheffield.
When he enlisted he was studying at Edinburgh University with a view to embarking on a career in medicine.
He arrived at Boulogne with the 7th Battalion on 14 July 1915 and was wounded in action at the end of the month whilst in the La Clytte area.
He served in the Ypres salient in late 1915, spending time in the Voormezeele area and Christmas Day of that year billeted in the ramparts of Ypres town.
Spring 1916 saw the battalion involved in the Actions of the Bluff just outside Ypres, and in June they moved down to the Somme.
On 1 July 1916 2nd Lt Clarke attacked with the battalion towards the village of Fricourt at 2-30 p.m. where “officers and men were literally mown down”. He was killed in this action at the age of 21."

Hoyland Nether (St. Peter) Churchyard ExtensionHoyland Nether (St. Peter) Churchyard Extension - 1
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