Kenneth Ezekiel Clarke
Service number
C/JX 544372
Military unit
HM Submarine Porpoise Royal Navy
Address
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Date of birth
Date of death
16 Jan 1945 (25 years old)
Place of birth
Unknown
Employment, education or hobbies
Unknown
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Family history
Lived at Coxmoor, Sutton in Ashfield. Son of Jack Clarke; husband of Ida Louisa Clarke (née Smithard) [St.John's Mansfield.m.1943], of 285 Derby Rd. [e.1948]. His widow married Kenneth Arthur Clarke [l.m.1948].
Military history
United Kingdom CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL 80, 3.
HMS Porpoise was on patrol in the Malacca Strait, laying
mines off Penang, when it was probably sunk by Japanese
aircraft. His was the last British submarine to be lost in the war.
Extra information
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Photographs
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