Private Austin Dorland Clark
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Clark,
Austin Dorland
Date of birth: 1889-07-12
Place of birth: Lennox & Addington Ontario Canada
Next of kin: Willis Clark (Uncle,) Enterprise, Manitoba
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Blacksmith
Occupation (normalized): Blacksmith, General
Address:
Enterprise, Ontario
Religion: Methodist
Date of death:
1917-04-09
Cause of death:
Killed in action
Buried:
Zivy Crater, Thelus, Panel 2. Col. I.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 636867
Highest Rank:
Private
(21st Battalion)
Rank detail
Private, 21st Battalion, Infantry (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: During the advance on VIMY RIDGE on the morning of April 9th, 1917, he was killed by the explosion of a shell.
RESEARCH INFORMATION
LAC ID:
101794
Service file: B1726-S020
Uploader's Notes: On his Attestation his birth date is only given as 1890. The 21st Battalion tribute page adds that he was born in July 1890 based upon the 1911 census. No birth registration is found in the Ontario Birth Registrations, but one is found for his older brother Wilbert born in 1887. The 1901 census gives his DOB as 12 July 1889 (this date is used above.)
Uploader's Research notes:
Details of death from Ancestry.com which includes a digitized image of the casualty form from the "Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948” database
[Private Army Canadian Infantry 21st Battalion ]ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2005-04-08
Last modified: 2014-07-07