CLARKE, Hilary Laurence

Rank: 
Fusilier
Unit / Base: 
3 Commando
Prior Police Service: 
Metropolitan Police
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Service: 
Army
Number: 
6482249
Born: 
Sunday, September 29, 1918
Died : 
Wednesday, July 14, 1943
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
24
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Fusilier Hilary Clarke was killed in action during operations at Agnone, Sicily, and the Bridge at Malati (3 Commando Bridge). Son of Ralph and Mahlah Anne Clarke, of Leicester; husband of Evelyn Alice Clarke. His brother Stanley William Clarke, RN, also died in the war.
Hilary Laurence Clarke, warrant number 126854, joined the Metropolitan Police on 9 May 1938, and left on 14 July 1943 (died). Last posted to F Division as a PC. In 1939 he was a Metropolitan Police Constable residing at 19 Fielding Road, West Holland Park, London. He volunteered for the Commandos as part of the 1st Police Intake of 1942. 
 
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/65.
Register of leavers from the Metropolitan Police / National Archives file MEPO 4/350/225.
The 1939 Register covering Hammersmith, London.
ROH in Commando-Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in WW2 by Brig Durnford-Slater.
 

Notes
His brother also died. P/MX 78180 Wireman Stanley William Clarke, RN, HMS Hood, 24th May 1941 aged 19yrs. Portsmouth War Memorial.

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