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Name Leo Clarke No. 72132 POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 751 Awards VC
Regiment Canadian Expeditionary Force, Eastern Ontario Regiment, 2nd Battalion
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Acting Corporal
Rank End Of Career Acting Corporal
Place Of Birth Waterdown, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Place Of Death No. 1 General Hospital, Etretat, near Le Harve, France
Buried/Location Ashes Etretat Churchyard & Extension, near Le Harve, Seine-Maritime, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot II, Row C, Grave 3A
Gazetted 20 October 1916
VC Presented 3 April 1917 by the Governor-General of Canada the 9th Duke of Devonshire at Winnipeg, Canada to his father, Henry Trevelyan
Memorials
P Headstone, Etretat Churchyard & Extension, near Le Harve, Seine-Maritime, France
Bronze Plaque On Lamp Post, Valour Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Plaque, Royal Canadian Legion Post, Hamilton Street, Waterdown, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Named On Water Tower, Poziers, Somme, France
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, 80 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
P Named on Water Tower, Pozieres, Somme, France
By The Way…
Born as Lionel Beaumaurice Clarke
One of three men to have lived on Pine Street (later named Valour Road), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada to be awarded the VC
VC Held By
Canadian War Museum, 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
BORN 1 December 1892
DIED 19 October 1916 AGE 23
VC Won 9 September 1916 AGE 23
Place VC Won Near Pozieres, Somme, France
War/Campaign First World War 1916
Thank you to Tony Goddard for the photos of the Water Tower at Pozieres
