17335 E A Clark

Pte Clark made a contribution to an album by patients at Leckhampton Court Red Cross Hospital 1914 - 1918, which has found it's way onto the internet.

Private Clark decided to write a poem:

"A time will come when Victory's crested wave

Sweeps swiftly forward in a cleansing tide.

When staid and sober citizens behave

like children, off their heads, with joy and pride.

Then while the bells peal madly through the land -

Look back a bit, I never once forget

That so called "negligable" British band

To whom the Empire owes its deepest debt.

With best wishes to the owner of this book

Pte E A Clark, 17335

13th Essex, West Ham Battalion"