This man served as CLARKE and so is "mis-filed" in the WW1 Service Records (WO 363):

Albert Ormrod CORKE, born September 1876, Stockton on Tees. Father: Herbert J. Lived in Winchester, Watford and (in 1940) SE London.

Enlisted with the Hampshire RE in December 1915 (Regt No. 2637), transferred to the Tank Corps (Regt No. 306942), was discharged 1919.

Anc****y, CLA, pages 102854 to 102878