Trafford

Born during the September quarter 1917 in the Bucklow R.D. - ref: 8a/251,
the son of Herbert & Ethel Clark (nee Shorrock).

1921 Census - 52, Bromwich Street, Bolton, Lancashire.   Grandson - aged: 4
- born: Brooklands, Cheshire.   His parents - Herbert Clark - Married - Son
in Law - aged: 30 - occ: Chemist Shop Assistant at Boot's, Chemists, 39
Market Street, Manchester - born: Bradford, Yorkshire.   Also - Ethel Clark
- Daughter - Married - aged: 32 - occ: Home Duties - born: Salford.    Plus
1 younger sister and his grandparents with whom they were living and 4
maternal aunts and uncles.

Married Annie Kellet during the September quarter 1939 in the Bucklow R.D.
- ref: 8a/884.

1939 National Registration - 23 Wilma Avenue, Manchester.   Herbeert E.
Clark - Born on the 25th May 1917 - Married - occ: Skilled Lab Assistant
Process Dyestuffs Industry.    Annie Clark - Born on the 19th June 1917 -
Married - occ: All Round Confectioner. 

Flying with 408 (Goose) Sqn he took off  in a Halifax Mk VII Bomber No.
NP810 EQ-H from RAf  Linton on Ouse at 15.20 hrs for a bombing raid on an
Oil refinery at Castrop-Rauxel.  Herbert was the only RAF man on board,
which was piloted by Flt.Lt.  A.E. Reeves RCAF.    The aircraft was shot
down by Hauptmann Fritz Lau of the 4./NJG 1, who had taken off from
Düsseldorf airfield in Bf 110 G-4 G9+AM.  Herbert's a/c crashed at a farm
on the outskirts of Hochdahl - Trills, at Erkrath, Nordrhein-Westfalen,
Germany.     Reeves and one other RCAF crew member were taken prisoner, the
other 5 crew members were all killed.

C.W.G.C. - Son of Herbert and Ethel Clark; husband of Annie Clark, of
Timperley, Cheshire.   M.I. - GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS

Commemorated on the Altrincham Grammar School's Memorial and the 145 A.T.C.
Sqn Memorial - Altrincham Grammar School.

His widow married William Salt in 1948 in the Bucklow R.D.