Corporal Leo Clark | Battle of the Somme  | Canada World War I
Channel: Miasma Reading
Date: 2024-03-27

At the beginning of the Battle of the Somme in September 1916, there was an occurrence when a Canadian soldier, Corporal Leo Clarke, fought against 22 Germans after all of his comrades were either wounded or killed. The two sides exchanged blows from their rifles and grenades. Clarke exhausted his rifle through the group and dealt in brutal hand-to-hand combat when one of the German soldiers stabbed him in the leg with a bayonet. Clarke struggled with the soldier but eventually killed him by impaling him with his own bayonet. After the encounter, Clarke walked away alive and captured one man as a prisoner.

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