Just found this old email, from when we found out who Charles Valentine Clarke was:
This evening I have been working on the graves databases. This is something that I have wanted to do for some time. Remember - I have not yet located the graves and am not sure that I will. But what I have to tell you is most interesting, and has only come to light because of all the work that I have been doing for the property register.
In the church we have a brass memorial plaque to a Charles Valentine Clarke. He was "lost in the foundering of the Titanic" and it was placed there by his wife. To make a boring register more interesting, I looked up on the website (with a friend because I'm not into this) all the information referring to Charles Valentine Clarke. I will put as an attachment what I have written concerning the couple.
As his name did not appear on the "recovered bodies" list, I assumed that his body had not been recovered. But on the list of graves that I copied (drawn up about 1970) is a Charles Valentine died 1912, and buried in the same grave as Harry (died 1951 and Jane I had put him down as Charles Valentine - because that was how it was recorded hence he did not appear on my original information to you. At some point I will need to look this up in the burial register at Portsmouth City Records.
The attachment is a copy that I have put opposite the photograph of the plaque. I do not have a scanner so cannot send an image of the plaque. The wording on the plaque is [i]In loving memory of my dear husband Charles V Clarke who was lost in the foundering of the Titanic April 15th 1912 Aged 29 years. "In the midst of life we are in death"[/i].
💬 Charles Valentine Clarke's body was not recovered.
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