Peter Wilberforce CLARKSON

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CLARKSON, Peter Wilberforce

Service Number:	427499
Enlisted:	19 July 1942
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	No. 13 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Toodyay, Western Australia, 18 October 1923
Home Town:	Mount Lawley, Vincent, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Accidental (Flying Accident), Cape Arnhem, Northern Territory, Australia, 27 January 1945, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	Adelaide River War Cemetery, Northern Territory C.B.8., Adelaide River War Cemetery, Adelaide River, Northern Territory, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Fremantle Commonwealth Bank of Australia West Australian Staff WW2 Honour Roll, Nhulunbuy Wall of Remembrance

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flying Officer, 427499
19 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, No. 13 Squadron (RAAF)
19 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 427499

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

RAAF Ventura PV1 aircraft A59-56 of Number 13 Squadron crashed into the sea off Bremer Island near Gove, NT while on a gunnery exercise. Two crewmen survived: Warrant Officer Gordon Frank Cathro 417991 (discharged November 1945) & Warrant Officer George Robert Murdoch 420396 (discharged February 1946). The rest of the crew were killed:

Commemorated on the Northern Territory Memorial to the Missing located at Adelaide River War Cemetery, NT are:

Flight Sergeant Lloyd Haig Ames 210069 - Son of Henry Pickard Ames and Jane Maud Ames & Husband of Jean Emily Ames of Subiaco, WA

Flight Lieutenant Edward Louis Calder 406770 - Son of William Percy and Fanny Calder & Husband of Freda Mary Bussell Calder of Busselton, WA

Warrant Officer Eric Clyde Peacock 423425 - Son of Allan and Winifred Ursula Peacock of Five Dock, NSW

Buried at Adelaide River War Cemetery is Flying Officer Peter Wilberforce Clarkson 427499 - Son of Henry Wilberforce Clarkson and Emma Isabel Clarkson of Mount Lawley, WA

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