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.
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.
