Remembering Paul Graham Clark of St John’s College
Born: 9th February 1897 in Leicester, England.
Died: 26th August 1918 in Bapaume, France. Killed in action, aged 21.
Buried: Archiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas-de-Calais, France.
Paul Graham Clark was an Auckland University College studying medicine who was also enrolled at St John’s in 1915. He applied and was accepted for a Maria Blackett Scholarship the same year when he had to take leave of absence to enlist in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He was initially rejected as underage and wasn’t accepted into the force until 1918. He attained the rank of Second Lieutenant.
The archives at the John Kinder Theological Library hold correspondence from Clark to the St John’s College Trust Board asking for leave from the college and whether they can hold his scholarship for him until he returns from the war. He was killed while fighting in Bapaume, France.
100th Anniversary Display Note
To mark the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli an exhibition was held at the John Kinder Theological Library displaying books and archives, as well as biographies of the St John’s Theological College students who served and were killed during World War One.
These biographies will be posted on this blog over the next week including some significant discoveries we have made while researching these students.