Forty-seven men, mostly from the Welsh Guards, were killed in the attack, making it the single largest loss of life for British forces during the conflict. But the toll could have been higher were it ...

Born in Pollokshields, Glasgow, on September 7, 1915, he died on January 12 at Saanich Peninsula Hospital in Canada. Clark was the son of Dr Donald Clark MB ChB and Esther Thomson, and the last ...

Lieutenant-Commander Victor Clark, who has died aged 97, played a dashing role in the defence of Singapore as the Japanese closed in on the British garrison in 1941. After surviving the sinking of the ...