One hundred years ago yesterday, more than two and a half years into the Great War, Private Clarence Cork, 4538 3rd, 5th, North Staffordshire Regiment died from wounds received in action aged 19.
Clarence was a Porthill Scout, and was the eleventh of eighteen of our Scouts, that we know of, that were killed in the Great War.
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You can read his full story here.
Clarence Frederick Cork b. Wolstanton 1898 – d. Belguim 1917.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.