SERGEANT ANDREW MURDOCH CLARK
SOUTH AFRICAN INFANTRY
9TH APRIL 1917 AGE 28
BURIED: POINT DU JOUR MILITARY CEMETERY, ATHIES, FRANCE
Andrew Murdoch Clark was one of his parents ten sons. Sometime before the 1911 census he emigrated to South Africa and from there he joined the 4th Regiment South African Infantry known as the South African Scottish. The regiment was formed from the Transvaal Scottish and the Cape Town Highlanders and wore the Atholl tartan.
Clark was wounded in the South Africans first engagement at Delville Wood in July 1916 and then killed on the first day of the Battle of Arras, 9 April 1917.
It’s an interesting inscription firmly linking John Clark’s South African son back with his family and home in Scotland.