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Military service
Service number:
P/27944
Age:
31
Rank:
Company Quarter Master Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Death:
April 30, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. P. Grave 68.
Additional information
Husband of Beatrice Estelle Clarke, of Ottawa, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Company Quarter Master Sergeant Victor Clarke
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Circumstances of death registers
Ontario Registration of Death -
Grave marker
CQMS Clarke was among the 73 Canadian military who lost their lives when the SS Nerissa was sunk after being struck by German torpedoes off the coast of Ireland on April 30, 1941. His body was washed ashore in Scotland. Photo courtesy of Find-a-grave Doune Cemetery, Girvan, S.Ayrshire, Scotland. -
Graves registration form
Burial Record from Service File -
Newspaper clipping
"C.S.M. Victor Clarke." The Ottawa Citizen, 6 May 1941, p. 12. -
Newspaper clipping
The Ottawa Citizen, 7 May 1941, p. 25. -
Newspaper clipping
The Ottawa Journal, 25 Sep 1941, p. 14.
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant Victor Clarke
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant Victor Clarke
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant Victor Clarke
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant Victor Clarke
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant Victor Clarke
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant Victor Clarke
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 26 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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GIRVAN (DOUNE) CEMETERY Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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