Stanley Owen Clarke
Iron Foundry Clerk.
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Son of Harry and Emily Clarke of 41 Oxcroft Lane, Bolsover. Stanley was one of 9 children.
On 24th March 1934 he married Olive Mary Gutteridge at St John the Evangelist at Carrington. They had one son, John born in 1937.
In 1939 they were living at Albany Place Mansfield Woodhouse.and Stanley was working has a clerk at an Iron Foundry.
Mansfield Chronicle Advertiser: 19/12/1941:
News has been received by mrs Stanley Owen Clarke of Albany Place Mansfield, that her husband was one of the survivors from the Prince of Wales. An old Brunts scholar Mr Clarke was employed at meadows Foundry before joining the Navy last March. He had been on board about 7 months.
So persumably after the sinking of the Prince of Wales at Kota Bharu north of Singapore the survivors were taken to Singapore until they could by redeployed to a new ship.
HMS Sultan was a shore base at Singapore. Established in 1940 it fell when the Japanese attacked in February 1942. Between 10th and 15th of February 5000 escaped from Singapore but only 1 in 4 managed to reach safety, the rest were captured or killed.
Remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 101, col 3.
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