Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Colonel D’A. M. Clark, C.B.E., Army Service Corps, late London Regiment

1914 Star, with clasp (183 C:Sgt. D’A. M. Clark. 14/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major D’A. M. Clark.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (183 C. Sjt: D’A. M. Clark. 14/Lond: Regt.) traces of lacquer, good very fine (4) £240-280

C.B.E. London Gazette 12 December 1919.

M.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1918.

D’Arcy Melville Clark was born in Hampstead, London, on 20 May 1881, and attested for the Territorial Force in London on 3 April 1908, having previously served in the 1st Gloucestershire Royal Engineers. He served with the 14th Battalion, County of London Regiment (London Scottish) and was promoted Sergeant on enlistment. Promoted Colour Sergeant on 2 April 1912, he served during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 September 1914. He was awarded the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 101 of 1914, and was commissioned in the the Army Service Corps on 10 October 1915. He was promoted Captain on 26 December 1916, and subsequently served with the Labour Corps as assistant Commandant, Headquarters, with the rank of temporary Major from 1 March 1918, and as Officer Commanding No. 28 Group, with the rank of acting Lieutenant-Colonel from 24 November 1918. Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 4 January 1917), he was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the June 1918 Birthday Honours’ List. Appointed Sub-area Commandant, No 3 Area, with the rank of Colonel on 1 May 1919, Clark returned to the U.K. for demobilisation on 20 November 1919, and was advanced to a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in December of that year. He relinquished his commission on 9 November 1920, and was granted the rank of Colonel.