Craig Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Clarke
  • FORENAME
Jack Ted
  • UNIT
1st Raider Battalion (Company C)
  • RANK
Private
  • NUMBER
359091
  • DATE OF DEATH
10th August 1942
  • AGE
22
  • GRAVESITE
Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila, Philippines. Tablets of the Missing.
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Pennsylvania
born 09.06.1920
Next of kin - Mother, Mrs. Tressa Clarke, 171 Main Street, Kingston, Pennsylvania
DOW Tulagi, Solomon Islands (Buried at Sea)
Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Annville, Pennsylvania (Memorial)
 

DATE OF DEATH:

10-Aug-1942

WEB LINKS:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2575485/jack-ted-clarke (Memorial)

FINDAGRAVE:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56767015/jack-clarke

SERVICE HISTORY:

CLARKE, Jack, Pvt 521/745 (Rifleman) SN: 359091
Born: 09 Jun 1920 Pennsylvania
Enlisted USMC: 14 Jan 1942 (Home of Record: 171 Main Street, Kingston, Pennsylvania)
Died of Wounds: 10 Aug 1942 (WIA, Tulagi Island, British Solomon Islands)
Interred: Buried at sea by US Naval authority. A memorial headstone is placed for him at the Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Annville, Lebanon County, PA (Section MA, Site 38)

Eastern Recruiting Division, 1700 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA
Jan 1942 Pvt, ERD, Phila., PA “14Jan42; 14, Jdenl at DHS Philadelphia, Pa.. and tr to MB, PI, SC same date”
4th Recruit Battalion, Recruit Depot, Marine Barracks, Parris Island, SC
Jan 1942 Pvt, 4thRecBn, RDep, MB, Parris Island, SC “14Jan42; 15, Jdenl fr DHS Philadelphia, Pa.”

Company C, 1st Marine Raider Battalion, FMF, In the Field
Apr 1942 Pvt, Co C, 1stMarRdrBn, FMF, In the Field (Tutuila, Samoa) “1, entrained at MB, Quantico, Va.; 1-3, enroute; 4, arr & detrained at MCB, San Diego, Calif.; 4-11, at MCB, San Diego, Calif.; 12, emb on bd USS ZEILIN at San Diego, Calif.; 13, sailed; 14-27, passage; 28, arr at NS, Tutuila, Samoa; 29, on bd USS ZEILIN at NS, Tutuila, Samoa; 30, disemb & encamped at Tutuila, Samoa”
Jul 1942 Pvt, Co C, 1stMarRdrBn, FMF, In the Field (Tutuila, Samoa & Noumea, New Caledonia) “1-4, at Tutuila, Samoa; 4, emb on bd USS HEYWOOD for trans from Tutuila, Samoa to Noumea, New Caledonia; 5-9, underway; 10, arr at Noumea, New Caledonia; 23, emb on bd USS GREGORY for spl assignment and sailed same date.”
Aug 1942 Pvt, Co C, 1stMarRdrBn, 1stMarDiv, FMF, In the Field (Tulagi, British Solomon Is) “8, Wounded in Action; 10, Died of Wounds
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