Army Sergeant Lewis Carlyle Clark Jr. was born on August 18, 1928, the son of Lewis C. Sr. (1898-1947) and Loretta Young who were married in 1926 in Albion, Iowa. His family came to Pensacola via the state of Alaska in 1944 where his father became the manager of the US Fidelity & Guarantee Company. The family would also establish their residence at 2001 East Lakeview Street while Lewis Jr. was attending Pensacola High School.
Prematurely, his father died at the age of 48-years-old on July 29, 1947 just three years after their arrival in Pensacola. He was buried in Bayview Cemetery as a WWI veteran who served with the 109th Trench Mortar Battery as a Corporal from 1917-1919. Lewis Jr. would follow in his father's footstep and enlisted in the US Army on June 29, 1946 at the age of 16-years old. Upon his father's death, he was given emergency leave to come home from his duty station in Japan. He was discharged from the military on April 30, 1948 and returned to Pensacola to enter in the inactive reserves and marry Miss Augusta Elizabeth Struck on December 29, 1949. Miss Struck was the daughter of Carl Herman Struck and Florence Amy Hilda Ropke. She was a 1949 graduate of Florida State where she majored in Bacteriology. However, the poor couple had little time to enjoy their new life together before North Korea invaded the south on June 25, 1950.
Lewis would reenlist on September 29, 1950 and was sent to Korea to be assigned to Company "C" of the 38th Infantry Regiment with the 2nd Infantry Division. After the battle of the Chosin Reservoir, the Division was sent to the vicinity of Wonju. where in February, they helped stop an attack by twelve Chinese divisions. In May, the Chinese launched another major assault and by May 15th the 38th Regiment was holding a defensive position on a hill crest between the Hongchong and Soyang rivers, in the defensive line called the "No Name Line." There, on May 16th they came under attack from overwhelming numbers of Chinese and North Korean troops. The attack bogged down temporarily when the enemy hit the minefields, barbed wire, and heavy artillery fire. But the attack was overwhelming and eventually overran the area, forcing parts of the regiment to fall back to new positions. By May 18, enemy units were infiltrating behind the regiment and some companies had to turn around to face this new threat. The regiment held, but not without heavy casualties during this massive attack. One of those casualties was Sgt. Lewis Carlyle Clark who was killed in action on Hill #1051 near the village of Chaun-ni, South Korea.
Augusta was notified that Lewis had been killed and would be sent home at a later time. His remains would arrive in December 1951 and he was buried near his father in the Bayview Cemetery. Augusta would continue to live in her parents home and was even taking courses as late as 1952. She finally went to work in the New Orleans Charity Hospital where she met her future husband Dr. Henry Dailey Haberyan. They would marry in 1955 with three children born to the union before she passed away in 2009.
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