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John Clarke
Updated May 27, 2025
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Seaman 8799/A (Dev) John Clarke, Royal Naval Reserve, SS Kashmir.
John was born in Runcorn in April 1896. He was the eldest son of John and Ellen Clarke of 1 Picton Avenue, Runcorn.
His mother died in February 1912. She was buried with 3 of her children, 2 of whom had died 24 hours apart.
John worked for the Post Office from the age of 14, starting as a 'telephone message boy'.
He joined the Royal Naval Reserve in Liverpool on 27th November 1915. His record shows that he was mobilised before his training was completed. He served on Vivid, Revenge and President lll. His CWGC states that he was serving on SS Kashmir but, this does not appear in John's Naval records.
John died of Pnuemonia at Belvedere Hospital in Glasgow on 23rd October 1918, he was just 22. The records do not show his cause of death.
His father brought him home from Scotland to be buried with his mother and siblings.
Tragically, John Clarke Snr lost another son, Edwin, who was lost at sea in 1925.
As a family the story has been passsed down. John caught pneumonia and was in the sickbay of Kashmir when he came out to man an anti aircraft gun, he then developed double pneumonia which he succumbed to.
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