14222510 Pte Frederick Charles Clarke was born on May 16, 1912, and was the son of Walter Frederick and Caroline Maud Clark; husband of Lilian Dorothy Clark, of Hornsey, Middlesex.

In 1939 he was shown as living with his parents and Wife at 26 Myddelton Road, Hornsey. He married Lilian Dorothy BRINSMEAD early in 1934. She was born 28 June 1914.

Fred successfully completed parachute course No. 45 at Ramat David in Palestine from 01 until 12 June 1943.

During the Battle of Arnhem, Fred was involved in the fighting in Oosterbeek where he was seriously wounded. Corporal Basil Charles Len O'Dell, Headquarters Company, 11th Parachute Battalion, wrote a letter to the War Office. In it, he wrote the following:

"In answer to your letter Ref M/WE/838 Enc IX Case L, regarding personnel of the 11th Parachute Battalion missing from operations in Western Europe, Arnhem. 14222510 Pte F.C. Clark, age 30-31, height approximately 5 ft 7 inches, brown hair, very thin, employed as a carpenter in Headquarters Company, Quarter Masters Staff. On September 21, 1944, at Oosterbeek, was wounded in the head, his right eye was missing due to shrapnel from an 88mm shell from a Mark IV tank. Taken to the dressing station, his condition is serious."

Fred died on Friday September 22, 1944 and was first buried in the garden of the Ter Horst family, now Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 6.A.16.