Regina Trench which was still under heavy enemy artillery fire. Clarke was crouching in a hole at the rear of a trench when a shell exploded and the back of the trench caved in, burying him. His brother dug him out, but Clarke was paralyzed; the weight of the earth had crushed his back and injured his spine. Clarke was taken to No. 1 General Hospital, but died on 19 October. He is buried in Plot II, Row C, Grave 3A, in Etretat Churchyard Extension, 16 miles north of Le Havre, France. According to a contemporary newspaper article, shortly before his death he wrote his parents, stating: "I don't care so much for the Victoria Cross as getting home for a couple of months." Legacy Clarke was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross in February 1917. Clarke’s father, Harry, received his son’s VC at a presentation at the corner of Portage and Main in Winnipeg. The medal was a simple bronze cross stamped with the motto “For Valour.” For the first time, Canada’s Duke of Devonshire (Governor General of Canada), travelled to make a personal presentation of the award at a ceremony attended by about 30,000 people. Harry Clarke also received a letter from King George V, commending his son for his courageous actions. In 1925, Pine Street in West End, Winnipeg, was renamed "Valour Road" in honour of Clarke and fellow Victoria Cross winners Frederick William Hall and Robert Shankland, all of whom lived on the 700 block. A plaque in his honour was erected by the Ontario Heritage Foundation at the Royal Canadian Legion branch in Waterdown. Clarke's story was featured in a Heritage Minutes vignette, which was run nationally in Canada. The legacy of remembrance continues in the Clarke family as Charles (Charlie) Clarke (brother of Leo Clarke VC) named his eldest son Lionel after his late brother and the family has continued to honour this memory with the great-nephew and great-great nephew carrying this name as well. In 2010, the eldest son of Charles (Charlie) Clarke (nephew and namesake Leo Charles Clarke), with the full support of the family, donated the Victoria Cross - as well as the Colt Model 1905 Marine Corps sidearm to the Canadian War Museum. This was donated in memory of both his Uncle Leo and his father Charles (Charlie) Clarke. By 2014, the museum had acquired all three Valour Road medals Victoria