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The Channel Islands and the Great War |
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Frederick
John Noel Clarke was killed in action on the 29th June, 1915 aged just nineteen.
He was a 2nd Lieutenant with the 6th Battalion, Worcestershire Regt at the time
of his death and was the only son of Frederick Charles Philip and Minnie Jane
Clarke of Runnymede, Roseville Street, St Helier, (I presume this is now the Runnymede
Hotel). An Old Victorian and former member of the 3rd (South) Battalion of the
Royal Jersey Militia, Frederick had trained at Sandhurst and was killed only a
short time after reaching the front. He was one of the first to volunteer from
the 3rd Battalion, and the first to be killed. Frederick
is buried in Sanctuary Wood Cemetery, Belgium. |
 Two
brothers remembered on the memorial are Frederick
Isaac and William
Henry Livermore, two men who died 4 months apart in completely different parts
of the world pressing home the status of the Great War as truly a world war. William
was initially reported as missing while fighting in the battle of the Somme on
the 17th November, 1916, while Frederick was initially reported missing near Baghdad
in the Middle East on the 25th March, 1917. Both brothers were Privates in the
Dorsetshire Regt, William in the 1st Battalion and Frederick with the 2nd Battalion.
William was the oldest brother being thirty nine when he was killed in action
and Frederick was thirty when he died. They were the sons of James Livermore.
Notification of William's death came through at about the same time as that of
his brother Fred. William is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial and Frederick
is remembered on the Basra Memorial. Unfortunately ninety years after "the
war to end all wars" ended British soldiers are once again dying in Iraq
- will the world ever learn? | | 
Arthur
Woodland Toms was the second son of Frederick and Emily Woodland Toms of 1
Claremont Terrace, St. Helier. His father was the States Analyst and he was educated
at Victoria College, where he was both a Prefect and Vice Captain of the football
team in 1908-09. Arthur became a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Devonshire
Regt in 1912. He was killed in France on 27th November, 1914 age twenty-three
and is buried in Estaires Communal Cemetery. At the time of his death he was preparing
to leave the army and join the Colonial Office, with his appointment to a position
in West Africa being offered to him three days before the declaration of war.
At the time of his death he was attached 2nd Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish
Rifles) | Memorial
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