Cyril Edward Clark, Stoker 1st Class (P/KX 97414) was born on May 8th 1915 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, the son of George William Clark, a farm labourer, and Ellen Clark, née Hough (1881-1935). Cyril married Eileen Temporal in 1938. The birth of the second of their two children was registered in June 1942.