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Son of Walter and Grace Banetta May Fuller, of Glenelg, South Australia.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Fuller, of Pier street, Glenelg, have been advised that their only son. Sgt:-Observer Clifford J. Fuller, is missing. Sgt. Fuller was serving with the South African Air Force, and was posted missing after air operations over Derna.
He was among the first group to be called up in South Australia to train under the Empire training scheme. He is 24 years of age.

Sergeant Clifford Jack Fuller 407028 was killed when Maryland AH354 of 24SQN SAAF was shot down by AA fire and crashed at sea near Derna, Libya

Crew killed: Lieutenant Clarkson 47829 SAAF / Sergeant Henry Avony Read 102230 SAAF / Sergeant Gordon Cyril Green 102188 SAAF

All crew are commemorated on the Alamein Memorial

Cliff joined the RAAF on 29 April 1940. After undergoing training at a number of establishments in Australia, he was awarded his Air Observers Flying Badge on 13 November 1940.
On 4 February 1941 he was posted to RAF Middle East and then Middle East Pool before spending 2 months at 223 Squadron, where he would have undergone conversion training to Maryland aircraft. After his conversion training he was posted to 24 Squadron South Africa Air Force (SAAF) on 18 June
1941.
On 5 August 1941 the 24 Squadron SAAF Maryland aircraft in which Cliff was flying was shot down over Sidi Barranni Egypt. The aircraft had left from the
airbase at Fuka west of Alamein on a night bombing raid on Derna. Also on board the aircraft were Lt Clarkson, and Sgts Read and Green, all of the SAAF.
He and the rest of the crew were all listed as presumed killed. Consequently, Cliff has no known resting place and is commemorated on column 246 of the Alamein Memorial.