Lt Arthur Vivian CLARK RFC

[stevenbecker]

Mates,

Can you help with details of the loss of this officer.

His AIF service record records he transfered to the RFC in Npv 1915 and may of died in Mesopotamia with the RFC.

The only officer close to that is this bloke, but he is not shown in the RFC?

AV Clark Lt

7Bn Gloucestershire Regt

died 20th April 1916

buried Amara War Cemetery Iraq

Can anyone help me here to find this man and how he died?

Cheers

S.B

[Esskay]

His medal card certainly suggests it's the same man - but again nothing about the RFC

Cheers

Sue

[Esskay]

From LG - Issue 29512 published on the 17 March 1916. Page 11 of 96

GENERAL LIST.

Infantry.

The undermentioned Non-Commissioned

Officers and Men to be temporary Second

Lieutenants: —

Dated 7th November, 1915.

Trooper Arthur Vivian Clark, from 2nd

Light Horse, Australian Imperial Forces.

SDGW on both Find My Past - and Ancestry show his date of death as 20 JANUARY 1916 - but no other details

Cheers

Sue

[Dolphin]

Steve

He's not listed in Airmen Died, so he may have transferred back out of the RFC.

Regards

Gareth

[per ardua per mare per terram]

He might show up on a trawl of the Army List.

[stevenbecker]

Mates,

Thanks it appears to be the right man.

This site showns the 7Bn Gloucestershire Regt didn't arrive in Iraq untill 1918

7th (Service) Battalion

Formed at Bristol in August 1914 as part of K1 and attached to 39th Brigade in 13th (Western) Division. Moved to Tidworth but by January 1915 was in billets in Basingstoke. Moved to Blackdown (Aldershot) in February 1915.

Sailed from Avonmouth on 19 June 1915 and landed on Gallipoli next month.

January 1916 : Division evacuated from Gallipoli and moved to Egypt.

July 1918 : Brigade transferred to North Persia Force.

So what was he doing in Iraq in either Jan or April 1916 to died there?

Could he be attached to the RFC from the Gloster Regt but only his Regt is shown?

Sorry Gareth thanks for that, I am unsure as his service record does show he was disch to the RFC from the AIF, so its possible he failed to qualify for the RFC and was sent to the Gloster Regt?

Cheers

S.B

PS

Sorry about that I just checked the 13th Div and found mu mistake.

12 February 1916 : began to move to Mesopotamia, to strengthen the force being assembled for the relief of the besieged garrison at Kut al Amara. By 27 March, the Division had assembled near Sheikh Sa'ad and came under orders of the Tigris Corps. It then took part in the attempts to relieve Kut. After these efforts failed and Kut fell, the British force in the theatre was built up and reorganised. The Division took part in the following, more successful, operations:

So his death in April appears more likely then Jan 1916.

I'll have to check to see what the Div was doing in April 1916.

S.B