BILLETT, Clive
| Service Number: | 414191 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 August 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | No. 460 Squadron (RAAF) |
| Born: | Port Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 27 July 1918 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Hairdresser |
| Died: | Flying Battle, Denmark, 10 April 1944, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Esbjerg (Fourfelt) Cemetery Brande, Denmark Plot A. Row 7. Grave 9. , Esbjerg (Fourfelt) Cemetery, Esbjerg, Jutland, Denmark |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 17 Aug 1941: | Involvement Flight Sergeant, 414191 | |
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| 17 Aug 1941: | Enlisted Brisbane, QLD | |
| 17 Aug 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 414191 | |
| 10 Apr 1944: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 414191, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of John Charles and Mary Kate Elizabeth May Billett, of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Biography contributed by David Barlow
Lancaster ME663 of 460 Squadron RAAF based at RAF Binbrook was shot down by a German night-fighter / anti-aircraft fire after a mission to lay mines in the Baltic and crashed near the town of Aale in Denmark
Flight Sergeant Frederick Stanley Hodge DFM 426100 was taken Prisoner and survived the war
Flying Officer Charles Edward Suffren DFC 409280 survived but with severe injuries; he passed away in a Luftwaffe Military hospital in Germany 10 months after the crash and is buried in Durnbach Cemetery in Germany (he is referred to in Volume 9 of “Bomber Command Losses” by Chorley)
The 5 crewmen that were killed in the crash are buried in Esbjerg (Fourfelt) Cemetery in Denmark
CHAPMAN, Leslie Harold (Flight Sergeant) 410641
CROSBY, Peter Alan (Flight Lieutenant) DFC 416656
BILLETT, Clive (Flight Sergeant) 414191
ROBB, Laurence William (Flying Officer) 418879
BENDER, Milton Harold (Pilot Officer) DFC 173405 RAF
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