Born on 6 December 1872, Henry Calvert Stanley-Clarke was educated at
Bedford School. He received his first commission as a
second lieutenant in the
Royal Artillery on 30 May 1893, was promoted to the rank of
lieutenant in 1896, and to the rank of
captain on 18 June 1900. In early February 1902, he was appointed
adjutant to the 37th Battalion,
Imperial Yeomanry, and the following May left
Aldershot with the Battalion for service in the
Second Boer War in South Africa. The battalion arrived after hostilities ended in early June, and left for home again on the SS
Avondale Castle in late December 1902. Two months later in February 1903 he relinquished the appointment in the yeomanry and returned to his regiment. He was promoted to the rank of
major in 1910. He served during the
First World War, between 1914 and 1918, was promoted to the rank of
lieutenant colonel in 1915, and to the rank of
brigadier general in 1916. Stanley-Clarke was appointed a Companion of the
Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1915, as a Companion of the
Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1917, and as a Companion of the
Order of the Bath (CB) in 1919. He retired from the
British Army in 1927 and died in
Sturminster Newton,
Dorset, on 27 February 1943, aged 70. ==References==