• First World War Commemorative Project
• Introduction
• The Memorial Service
• About the Project

Born	February 16, 1896
Died	October 27, 1917
Force	Army
Division	124th, Canadian Pioneers
Home Address	2282 Queen Street East [Map]

Paul Clarke was born in London, England and attended the Kew Beach Public School, Upper Canada College, and Saint Alban’s School before entering UTS. After graduating he entered Trinity College at the University of Toronto. He enlisted shortly after war broke out, joining the Machine Gun Section of the 19th Battalion as a private. He arrived in England in May 1915 before being sent to the front in France that September. He saw ten months’ of action in Flanders Fields before he contracted typhoid. He was first treated at the British Hospital in Boulogne and then invalided to England, where he spent several months recuperating at the Convalescent Hospital in Folkestone. Once recovered, he began training for a commission in the Imperial Officers’ Cadet Battalion at Balliol College, Oxford, where he stood first in his class. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the 124th Pioneer Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Clarke was bringing ammunition to the firing line at Zonnebeke during a night attack in the battle of Passchendaele when he was killed by a shell. He is buried in White House Cemetery, Saint Jean-les-Ypres, near Ypres, Belgium.

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