hubertgrove
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Hubert grove, I found your post on here whilst searching for info on Arthur Cecil Clarke. My mother has the same photo of him. Her father was Cecil's cousin (Bernard Clarke) and my mother, Janet remembers Cecil, Lottie, Margaret & Sylvia well.
Sue
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Thank you very much for all your help and hard work. What you have found is very helpful. I will pass it on to my mother, his step-daughter.
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Sorry, two other things I know: He was mentioned in despatches. He ended the war as an acting-brigadier.
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Thank you. That's a lot of information. I also know - or have heard - the following: He was originally in the Royal Engineers. At Dunkirk, he was the one who came up with the idea of driving lorries into the sea and placing boards over the top so men could embark directly onto the boats. He was then posted to the War Office (while on a bus with his step-daughter who become my mother, an officious old lady poked him in the chest and called him a 'whitehall warror' until the conductor told her to look at his sleeve where he had "wound stripes") He then went to India. I don't know what he did there. After the war he went to New Zealand and became harbour-master of Christchurch or Aukland Harbour. But that's all I know of him unfortunately. Because his name is so common - definitely 'Clarke' and I am pretty sure about 'Arthur' and 'Cecil' - I have not been able to learn anything more. To view the images on office dump you need an key word which is 'officer'.
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Can anyone tell me anything about this WWII officer? Here are three photographs of a WWII officer. The first is the main photo. The second is a close-up of his cap badge. The third is a close-up of his epaulets. I believe the photo of of my step-grandfather but I know very little about him except that his surname was ’Clarke’ and his forenames were ’Arthur Cecil’. The problem is, there is a very famous author called ’Arthur Cecil Clarke’ so whenever I google information about this soldier, I get information about the writer. I believe he was at Dunkirk and then in the Far East during WWII. Can you tell me - what regiment he was in? What rank he holds at the time of the photo? http://www.imagedump.com/view.php?file=562029.jpg http://www.imagedump.com/view.php?file=562031.jpg http://www.imagedump.com/view.php?file=562030.jpg
