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STAFF SERGEANT ROBERT J.
CLARKE graduated from Collingswood (NJ) High School in 1939. He had
lived at 209 White Horse Pike in Collingswood. After high school, he
worked for RCA in Camden. He was a member of the New
Jersey National Guard, which was federalized on September 16, 1940. He
was stationed for two years at Fort Lewis OR, training soldiers for
overseas duty. While serving at Fort Lewis, he married
and had a son prior to shipping overseas in August of 1944.
Once overseas, Robert Clarke saw considerable combat, serving with a
Cavalry reconnaissance unit as part of the 7th Army. He was wounded in
November of 1944, and was able to return to his unit. Sergeant Robert J.
Clarke was killed while serving in
Austria on May 2, 1945. He was 24 years old. |
