Sims Clarke
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Sims was born in 1894 at Kexby, Lincolnshire the son of Joseph James a corn millers carter and his wife Eleanor F Clarke of Westwoods, Sturton by Stow. In the 1901 census he is living with his family ay Upton Road, Hexby, he has 2 sisters and by the 1911 census we find him living with a farmer called Joseph Amyan at Kexby , he is 17 years of age, single and a wagoner on the farm.
Sims service record show that he enlisted into the army on 9th January 1915 and completed his medical on 12th January 1915 also at Gainsborough.he gave his age as 21 years and 189 days and stated that he was a groom.He served with the 10th battalion, Lincolnshire regiment and was promoted to Lance Corporal in the field on 29th September 1916 .He was wounded in action on the 8th May 1917 but later returned to service On the 28th April 1917, the 10th Lincolnshire Regiment, who were part of the 34th Infantry Division, attacked the town of Roux, in France. The Germans counter-attacked, and the Battalion had over four hundred casualities, killed, wounded and missing. One of them was Sims Clarke who along with Henry Thomas Clark is also commemorated on the Arras Memorial with no known grave.
The information on Sims Clarke has been provided courtesy of the Beckingham and Saundby local history group.
