Corporal Paul Adrien Clark

Son of Aime Clark of Montreal, Quebec. Brother to Adrienne, Gisèle and Marguerite.

Assigned to the 2nd Battalion on enlistment, he was transferred to the 3rd Battalion on 18 June 1952. He left for Japan on 26 March 1953 and arrived in South Korea on 11 July. He was repatriated on 15 April 1954.

He was killed on his birthday in the company of Sergeant Jules Léonard Letendre, of St-Léonard, Nicolet, Quebec, on the night of 5 July 1954 when their motorbike collided head-on with a Provincial Transport bus bound for Montreal, Quebec, at the Donnacona bridge exit, Portneuf, on the Cap-Santé side of the highway, about 30 miles (48 km) west of Quebec City, Quebec, on a sharp bend. Letendre, who was driving, was killed on impact, while Clark died a few hours later, around midnight, at the St-Sacrement Hospital in Quebec City. He had been transported by the Denis ambulance from Donnacona.

"According to the investigation, the motorcycle was heading towards Quebec City and the bus was heading towards Montreal. Apparently the collision occurred when the soldiers overtook the cars on the curve leading to the bridge, just as the bus was coming out. Given the seriousness of the injuries, Abbé Moffet, vicar of Donnacona, administered medical care to the two wounded men, while Dr Rosaire Cauchon, from the same area, attended to them. But the sergeant died shortly after the collision. While the injured man was taken to Quebec City, where he died a few hours later, Sergeant Letendre's mortal remains were taken to the Denis mortuary in Donnacona. District coroner Dr Napoléon Côté of Portneuf will hold an inquest into the tragedy as soon as the Sûreté provinciale has completed its investigations. Both were members of the R22eR". L'événement-journal, 6 July 1954, page 1.

Commemorated on the Wall of Remembrance.