Frederick Ridley Clark (1897-1918)

The son of Harry E. Clark and Harriet E Birch Clark, Frederick Ridley Clark was born in Erie, Pennsylvania on Oct. 22, 1897. Little information is available on his early home life.
According to Clark’s Draft Registration Card, the family lived at 726 N. Euclid Ave. in Pittsburgh. At the time, Clark was a student at the University of Pittsburgh, and was of medium build and height, with brown hair and blue eyes.
On Oct. 1, 1918, Clark was inducted into the University’s Student Army Training Corps.
Frederick Ridley Clark died at home two days after his 21st birthday on October 24, 1918. Like so many of his fellow student-soldiers, his cause of death was influenza that led to lobar pneumonia.
He is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Wilkinsburg.