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“If you think, have a kindly thought, If you speak, speak generously, Of those who as heroes fought And died to keep you free”
Set up by the Black Country Society. Our aim is to highlight local men who died in the Great War and how they have been commemorated on war memorials. Its scope covers the whole of the present Dudley Municipal Borough and therefore includes the places which have come within its bounds since 1914.
There are over fifty memorials and the number of names exceeds three thousand. Research on the names has been extensive but inevitably errors and omissions occur. We would like to hear about them concentrated on life and work before 1914, involvement in military campaigns and where each man is buried or commemorated.
Ernest Clarke was born in Quarry Bank and attended Cradley C of E School. He enlisted in the Hampshire Regiment late in the war and was posted to the 2/4th Battalion. They returned from Palestine in May 1918 and served on the Western Front during the Advance to Victory from July to November 1918. They took the Allied line up to the Hindenburg Line but in the battle of Havrincourt that followed Private Ernest Clark was killed in action on the 13th September 1918. He is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois, Cradley, Halesowen and Cradley C of E School Memorials.
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