Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Clydesdale
- Town
- Lanark
- County
- Strathclyde
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: July 1915
Attended by:
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 89335
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Current location
St Nicholas' Church
Castlegate
Lanark
Clydesdale
Strathclyde
ML11 9DZ
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NS 88103 43576
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- Brass Plaque
- Inscription
- [unknown]
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass
- Plaque
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- The Hamilton Advertiser of 8 July 1915 p.6 reports the unveiling of a brass tablet in the Parish Church of Lanark to the memory of Major DOUGLAS CLARK who died of wounds at Gallipoli on 28 June 1915. Clark was born in Kirkcudbright (and is named on the WM there) He set up in business as watchmaker and jeweller in Lanark in 1902. He is named on the Lanark War Memorial as Major Douglas Clark 8th HLI. At the time of his death he was attached to the 1/7th Royal Scots, presumably to make up for the losses at the Gretna Rail crash. He was in fact transferred to the 1/7th before the crash. London Gazette 27 April 1915 Supplement: 29146 Page: 4155 8th (Lanark) Battalion,- The Highland Light Infantry; the following- announcements are substituted for those, which appeared in the London Gazette of the 17th March, 1915 : — The undermentioned are seconded for duty with the. 7th Battalion, The Royal Scots: — Captain Douglas Clark. Dated 19th November, 1914. Captain John R. -Torrance. Dated 18th December, 1914. Second Lieutenant James Ballantyne. Dated 8th December, 1914. Second Lieutenant Alexander S. Elliott. Dated 19th November, 1914. Second Lieutenant-William C. McGeachin. Dated 19th November, 1914. Second Lieutenant Tyndall McClelland. Dated 19th November, 1914. The 8th HLI never did go to war and was disbanded in 1916.
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