Philip Lindsey Clark was born in London in 1889. He was the son of the distinguished sculptor Robert Lindsey Clark. He was educated at Douglas House School, Cheltenham 1905-10 and at the City and Guilds School, Kensington 1910-14. In common with many of his contemporaries, upon the outbreak of the Great War, Lindsey Clark enlisted in the Artists’ Rifles, which then functioned as an Army Officer Training Corps. He was subsequently commissioned into the Royal Sussex Regiment. He saw active service on the Western Front, was promoted captain and awarded the Distinguished Service Order for conspicuous gallantry. He was also wounded and mentioned in despatches. In 1917 he married Trudy Mary Calnan. After the war, Lindsey Clark studied at the Royal Academy Schools. He exhibited at the RA from 1920, at the Salon des Artistes in Paris from 1921 and established his studio in London. On 11 April 1919 the Sketch published a letter calling upon war memorial committees throughout the land to ‘overlook the ‘artistic old guard’ and instead give ‘…. the young men…. the rising generation of soldier-sculptors…’ ‘an opportunity to make their reputations by producing more authentic looking figures of soldiers.’ At Kelvingrove, Lindsey Clark’s Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) War Memorial (1924) stands just west of Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum. It was inaugurated by Field-Marshal Earl Haig. It depicts a sergeant ‘advancing over the top’, symbolising ‘Victory’. On his right, is the dead body of a young officer, symbolising ‘Sacrifice’. A Lewis gunner (in the foreground) covers the advancing troops with gunfire symbolising ‘Determination’ and, in the words of the artist, shows the ‘determination to succeed… for which our men were so remarkable’. Lindsey Clark also sculpted the remarkably vital figure of a tin-hatted soldier for the St Saviour’s Parish War Memorial (1924) at Borough High Street in Southwark (above). In both cases, his interpretation of what was required to fulfil the commission is significant and his conceptions were undoubtedly the consequence of his own active service. There are no mournful bowed heads, or brooding contemplative allegorical figures in Lindsey Clark’s war memorial sculpture. Instead, his work features men of action suffused with an overpowering sense of dramatic urgency. He also executed the sculpture on the Belgian Soldiers Memorial at St Mary’s Roman Catholic Cemetery in Kensal Green, London, which commemorates those Belgian soldiers who had been wounded in combat and died in English hospitals. He was awarded the Palm of the Order of the Crown of Belgium for the work. His Monument to William Dennis (1930) ‘the potato king’ may be found at Kirton, Lincolnshire. Lindsey Clark’s military career during the Second World War is particularly noteworthy, not only because he enlised with the Cameronians, but because, he somewhat unusually managed to successively serve in the Army, the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy. Lindsey Clark was a devout Roman Catholic and in 1929, became a founder member of the Guild of Catholic Artists and Craftsmen. He undertook numerous ecclesiastical commissions, executing sculptures in wood, stone and bronze for churches, including Westminster Cathedral, Aylesford Priory in Kent and the Church of the English Martyrs at Wallasey. He trained the young Peter Watts, who would in so many senses be his successor. His statue Madonna and Child (1952) may be found in the Convent of the Holy Child Junior School, at Sir Harry’s Road, Edgbaston. In 1965 his statue Our Lady St Mary of Glastonbury was crowned by the Most Reverend Igino Cardinale, the Apostolic Delegate, during a Mass celebrated in the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey. Notwithstanding the fact that ten years of what should have been his productive working life were spent serving in various branches of Britain’s armed forces in two World Wars, in 1947 Lindsey Clark was elected ARBS and in 1952, FRBS. He exhibited at the RA for the last time following the death of his first wife in 1952. In 1962 he married Monica Mary Hansford and retired to Exmouth in Devon, where he died on Christmas Day 1977.