Education & Career :

Chief Carpenter, Malta (1918).

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Naval Campaign is defined as to include all sea operations where attrition rates are in ones and twos and which do not fall within specific naval battles such as Jutland, Coronel, Falklands etc. This includes Merchant Navy losses.

Detail :

Accidentally drowned in an incident on the 7th May, 1918. Another Freemason from the same Lodge was also killed in this incident. See W.G. Gale.

Probate shows "CLARKE Valentine Herbert of 134 Parrock-street Gravesend Kent died 7 May 1918 at sea off Malta Administration London 26 October to Mary Ann Clarke widow. Effects £288 9s. 1d."

Masonic :

"Drowned at Malta 7 May 1918"

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley