Captain Bowcher Clarke, 2nd Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment, November 1914

Photograph, World War One (1914-1918), 1914.

Clarke was adjutant of his battalion and the month before this photograph was taken he had helped lead the 2nd Worcestershire in their famous charge that repelled a massed German assault at the Battle of Gheluvelt (29-31 October 1914). He later commanded the 4th Worcestershire and ended the war with two Distinguished Service Orders.

From an album of 134 photographs compiled by Brigadier Bowcher Campbell Stenhouse Clarke DSO (1882-1969).