Education
Clarke attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on 29 October 1890.
Clarke attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on 29 October 1890.
During the First World War, he held various staff positions. He was Quartermaster-General to the Armies in France from 1917 to 1921, when he became Quartermaster-General to the Forces. From 1923 to 1941 he was the ceremonial colonel of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
He was promoted to lieutenant on 20 July 1892, and served with his regiment on the North West Frontier of India and in the Tirah Expedition of 1897-1898, following which he was promoted to captain on 13 April 1898.
Transferred to South Africa he served in the Second Boer War from 1900 to 1902, leaving after peace was declared in May 1902 to arrive in the United Kingdom the following month. The couple had one daughter before Mary"s death in 1918.
He remarried in 1921, to Irene Roe (née Cross), the widow of an officer in the Iniskillings. He served in World War I as Quartermaster-General for the British Armies in France from 1917.
In this role he was responsible for transferring Allied prisoners of war back to the United Kingdom and he strove to ensure they were treated properly and given clothing and blankets as they returned from Germany.
After the War he became Quartermaster-General to the Forces. He retired in 1926. He was also Deputy Chairman of the British Empire Exhibition in 1924.
