Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Second Lieutenant R. G. Clarke, Royal Field Artillery, late Honourable Artillery Company, who was killed in action on 9 September 1918

British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. R. G. Clarke); Memorial Plaque (Robert George Clarke) good very fine (3) £100-£140

Robert George Clarke, a native of Newport, Monmouthshire, attested for the Honourable Artillery Company on 11 January 1915 and served at home with 2/B Battery. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery at Easter 1917, he served with the 72nd Brigade during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action by a shell on 9 September 1918. He is buried in Fins New British Cemetery, Sorel-le-Grand, France.