Captain Stuart Tulk ELLICE-CLARK
1/4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment attached to the 10th Battalion Tank Corps

Date of birth: 7th November 1887
Date of death: 23rd October 1977

Died aged 89
Unknown
Stuart Tulk Ellice-Clark was born at 68 Wilbury Road, Hove in Sussex on the 7th of November 1887 the son of Edward Baudouin Ellice-Clarke, a civil engineer, and Adela Susannah (nee Tulk) Ellice Clark later of Wedderburn House, Wedderburn Road in Hampstead.

He was educated at Hazelwood School until July 1900 where he was a member of the 2nd Football XI in 1899 and of the Cricket XI in 1900. The school magazine wrote of his 1900 cricket season: - "A very useful lobster and hard working field. A weird batsman with an absolutely horizontal bat."

On leaving school the magazine wrote of him: - "Goes to Harrow, where we fancy the football will be very much to his taste, and he will certainly do well in school."

He went on to Harrow School where he was in Small's House and and Mr. Moss' House from September 1900 to August 1903. He served as a Private in the school Volunteer Corps. He went on to Trinity College Cambridge in 1905 where he graduated with a BA in Mechanical Science Tripos in 1909.

On leaving university he worked as a mechanical engineer for the C.A. Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co Ltd at Wallsend-on-Tyne where he worked in the shipyard, the workshops and the drawing office until 1911 . He then went to work as an assistant engineer for British Oxygen Co Ltd at Eleverton Street, Westminster.

Following the outbreak of war he enlisted at 10 Stone Buildings, Lincolns Inn as Private 6/967 in the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps on the 5th of August 1914. He was posted to Berkhamsted for training and rose to the rank of Corporal in C Company. He applied for a commission in the 2/4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment on the 10th of November 1914 and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the battalion on the 24th of November 1914. He was promoted to temporary Lieutenant on the 1st of April 1915. He went on a musketry course at Bisley from the 24th of May to the 11th of June 1915 where he won a distinction. From later in June to September 1915 he was appointed as Officer Commanding the Range Taking School instructing on the Barr and Stroud rangefinder. On completion of his time there he returned to the 2/4th Battalion where he became battalion musketry officer.

In June 1916 he was taken ill with appendicitis and a Medical Board sat at Caxton hall on the 14th of August 1916 to report on his condition: -

"He had a first attack 1/6/16 and was in bed 2 to 3 weeks. On 1/8/16 he was operated on by Mr M. White who removed the appendix - doing well."

A Medical Board which sat at Halton Camp on the 14th of February 1917 found him to be: - "Fully recovered."

He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 19th of October 1916 which was later antedated to the 1st of June 1916. On the 10th of November 1916 he was appointed as Assistant Brigade Musketry Officer and on the 27th of December 1916 he was appointed as Adjutant and later as Officer Commanding the East Anglian Reserve Brigade musketry school, based at Halton Camp North in Buckinghamshire where he served until the 27th of August 1917. He was promoted to Acting Captain on the 21st of November 1916, a rank he relinquished on the 22nd of August 1917.

He applied for a transfer to the Tank Corps on the 30th of July 1917. He was attached to the Tank Corps on the 27th of August 1917 and reported to the Depot Battalion, Tank Corps at Wareham Camp on the same day, where he was based until the 27th of November 1917. During that time he completed courses on the 6 pounder gun and on the Hotchkiss machine gun. He was posted to the 10th Battalion Tank Corps and embarked for France on the 18th of December 1917. He was wounded by a gunshot wound in the neck at Bucquoy on the 26th of March 1918 and was evacuated to England from Calais on the 1st of April 1918, landing at Dover on the same day. A Medical Board which sat at the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth on the 4th of April 1918 sent on him on leave until the 12th of April and a Medical Board which sat at Wareham Camp on the 6th of May declared him to be fit for general service. He was posted to a reserve unit of the Tank Corps.

He was promoted to temporary Captain on the 19th of October 1918 and finished the war at the Ministry of Munitions. He was demobilised on the 29th of March 1919.

He was married in London to Grace Alice (nee Doncaster) on the 2nd of June 1914 and they had a son, Michael Edward, born on the 30th of March 1916. They lived later at Croft Cottage, Chislehurst in Kent.

After the war he worked for Messrs Barrett and Elers of Wallis Road, Hackney Wick E9, was a member of the Public Schools Club and lived at 74, Castellain Mansions, Maida Vale, London W9.

He died at the Catholic Nursing Institute, 8, Lambeth Road, London SE1.
Went on to Harrow School

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