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He was born in Richmond upon Thames, on 1 April 1894, the 1st son of Frederick William Alfred Clarke, a Civil Servant of Bromley, Kent. He was educated at Dulwich College (1907-1913) and gained a Scholarship at Corpus (he never graduated) and was the Secretary of the Sundial Society in 1914: he also contributed to Punch. As a member of the University Contingent of the Officers’ Training Corps he enlisted on 20 August 1914 and saw service in Malta, Khartoum, Gallipoli, Egypt and France.