ALFRED ‘ALF’ GEORGE CLARKE

Born

On 10 March 1924.

Connection to South Riana

Attended school in South Riana.

Parents

Walter Stephen CLARKE and Emma Rose SCOTT who were married at South Riana in 1906.

Family

Norman Walter 1906 – 1989

Alice Louisa 1908 – 1987

Leonard Harold 1911 – 1993

Allan Harry 1913 – 1996

Raymond Robert 1915 – 1989

Wilfred Stephen 1921 – 1989

 Married

Eileen Joyce ‘Joy’ RILEY 1928 – 2003 in 1950 at Burnie.

Family

Peter

Died

31 May 2007 in Burnie. There is a plaque for him at the Hobart Garden of Remembrance in New Town. (pictured)

 School Records

 Alfred’s first enrolment number at South Riana State School was number445 when, on 27 January 1931, he was enrolled by his father who gave Alfred’s birthdate as 10 May 1924. Walter described himself as a farmer from South Riana living two miles from the school.  In July 1932 he moved to Ulverstone State School. He left there on 18 April 1933 which he continued at South Riana State School, enrolment number479.  He attended there for the next five months, leaving on the 29 September 1933 to attend school at Smithton.

Military Records

Service number TX13761. On his attestation papers he stated his birthdate as 10 March 1924, with his next of kin being his father W. Clarke. He enlisted at Hobart on 8 March 1943 and discharged 2 Nov 1945. 

First Photograph (taken in 1989) from ‘The Clarkes from Rockland, Norfolk, England’  held in  PHG library