The Kenneth Petrie Collection

A Great War 1916 ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Lance Sergeant C. W. Clark, 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards, later commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 6th (Service) Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment - with whom he was killed in action during the first day of the Battle of Cambrai, 20 November 1917

Military Medal, G.V.R. (18062 L. Sjt: C. W. Clark. 1/G: Gds:) very fine £200-£240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Kenneth Petrie Collection.

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M.M. London Gazette 21 December 1916.

Charles William Clark resided with his wife at 3 New Cottage, Great Abington, Cambridgeshire. He served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards in the French theatre of war from 16 March 1915. The Battalion served as part of the 3rd Guards Brigade, Guards Division on the Somme, August - November 1916.

Clark was commissioned Temporary Second Lieutenant in the 6th (Service) Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, and was killed in action on the Western Front, 20 November 1917. On the latter date the Battalion were heavily engaged during the Battle of Cambrai, and suffered severe casualties. Second Lieutenant Clark is buried in the Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Plouich, France.