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Warrant Officer Class 2 (Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant) William Clark, 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

William Clark served with the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and continued his service from 1908 on the creation of the 4th (Territorial Force) Battalion.  It would appear that whilst he attended the 1913 Annual Camp as a Sergeant, he had left the Territorial Force before the outbreak of the First World War.  He is shown as having enlisted on 9th September 1914 and received the number 2602. This number was changed to 200540 in 1917.  He went overseas with the rest of the 1st/4th Battalion on 3rd May 1915.  His home address is shown as 106 Harrogate Street, Barrow in Furness.  He was Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant of the 1st/4th Battalion by 1919.

Group of soldiers of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, circa 1906, with Corporal William Clark seated in the centre.
Accession Number: KO2981/01

Postcard sent from the 1908 Summer Camp of the 4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, at Ramsey, Isle of Man.  William Clark is stood to the right of the man in the centre wearing the white shirt, with only the top of his face showing.
Photograph by C P Serles, West Park Studio, Hull.
Accession Number: KO2981/02

Group at the 1908 Summer Camp of the 4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, at Ramsey, Isle of Man.  William Clark is stood on the left. 
Photograph by C P Serles, West Park Studio, Hull.
Accession Number: KO2981/03

Sergeants Mess, 4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at Denbigh, 1913.  Sergeant William Clark is in the centre of the back row behind the left hand officer.
Accession Number: KO2981/04

Soldiers of the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at Sevenoaks in 1914/15.  This photograph is reported to have appeared in the Barrow newspaper.  William Clark is standing third from the right.
Accession Number: KO2981/05

Soldiers of the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at Sevenoaks in 1914/15.  Probably Quartermaster's Department.
Accession Number: KO2981/06

Three soldiers including Warrant Officer Class 2 (Company Sergeant Major) William Clark on the left and an unknown Sergeant of the King's Own, with a French soldier.  Circa 1918.
Accession Number: KO2981/07

Group of soldiers of the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, with Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant William Clark, 1919.
Accession Number: KO2981/08

Lance Sergeant Tom Fletcher Mayson VC, of the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2981/09

Unidentified Sergeant of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, wearing the ribbon of the Queen's South Africa Medal.
Accession Number: KO2981/10

Three soldiers of the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.  William Clark is seated on the right, and the other two are believed to be the Hillen brothers from Millom, on the left John Hillen, killed in action, and Edward Hillen who was severely wounded in the war.
Accession Number: KO2981/11

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