Four: Chief Engine Room Artificer W. G. G. Clark, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (M.730, W. G. G. Clark, E.R.A.2, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.730. W. G. G. Clark. E.R.A.2. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.730. W. G. G. Clark. C.E.R.A.1. H.M.S. Constance.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £80-£100

William George Garfield Clark was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, on 19 February 1883 and attested for the 34th Company, Imperial Yeomanry on 18 January 1902, but was discharged ‘not likely to become an efficient soldier’ just 67 days later. On the 26 November 1908 he attested for service with the Royal Navy and served during the Great War in H.M.S. Hydra, H.M.S. Dolphin and H.M.S. Adamant. Advanced Chief Engine Room Artificer First Class on 18 July 1929, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in June 1930, before being shore pensioned on 25 November 1930. He died, aged 89, on 25 March 1962.

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