Clem Maxwell (Clem) ADAMSON

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ADAMSON, Clem Maxwell

Service Numbers:	V23347, VX139595
Enlisted:	8 October 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	13th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Sale, Victoria, Australia, 28 November 1921
Home Town:	Sale, Gippsland, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Milkman/Carter
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 June 2001, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Bunurong Memorial Park, Victoria
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World War 2 Service

8 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V23347, 13th Light Horse Regiment
22 Apr 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX139595
16 Nov 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX139595

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Clem Maxwell Adamson (Service Nos:V23347/VX139595) initially enlisted in the ACMF as a Private on 8 October 1940 and was 'in the field' attached to 13th Australian Armoured Regiment when he transferred to the AIF on 22 April 1943. Private Adamson served with 2/9 Infantry Battalion and was attached to 1 Infantry Training Battalion (AITB) at Discharge on 16 November 1944. Siblings Mervin and Kelvin also served in WWII.

Born in Sale, Victoria in 1921, Clem (Clement) was sixth of nine children of Frederick (Fred) Ernest Adamson (b1885 in Adelaide, South Australia) and Edith Kate Skeen (b1887 in Sale, Victoria). Fred was a Driver in Sale in 1911 when he and Edith married. They settled in Sale, where they raised their family and Fred worked as a Driver, Grocery Shop Assistant and Dairyman.

Clem worked in Sale as a Milkman/Carter before enlisting in the Army, and was a member of local footbal and cricket clubs. In 1950 he married Isobell May Jones (b1925 in Sale, Victoria) - Isobell was working in Sale as a Counter Hand. Clem and Isobell settled in Sale, where they raised their family and Clem worked as a Labourer. In the mid 1960s the family moved to Melbourne, where Clem worked as a Labourer and Manager. Isobell died in 1999 and Clem in 2001.

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