CLARKE, Donald Mckellar
| Service Number: | 61758 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 January 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 30 August 1907 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Bondi Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 27 February 1969, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 13 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 61758 | |
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| 20 Dec 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 61758 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Leading Aircraftman Donald Mckellar Clarke (Service No:61758) served with the RAAF from 13 January 1942 to 20 December 1945 and was attached to 2 Stores Depot at Discharge.
Born in 1907 in Perth WA, Donald was the eldest of three children of Donald Sayers Clarke (b1877 at Macarthur, Victoria) and Miriam Slobom (b1877 in Bendigo, Victoria). Donald Snr (a Clerk) and Miriam married in 1907 in Perth WA, where Donald Snr worked as a Clerk. By 1921 the family had settled at Bondi in Sydney NSW where Donald Snr worked as a Furniture Dealer.
Donald worked as a Clerk and Assistant to a Private Detective, and in 1931 married Ellen Harriet Williams (b1907 in Sydney, NSW) - Ellen was a Saleswoman. Donald and Ellen were Divorced in 1935 and Donald remarried in 1942 to Dulcie Elizabeth Moxon (nee Ogders (b1908 at Tingha, NSW). Donald and Dulcie lived in Singleton, where Donald was Chief Clerk with the Joint Coal Board before returning to Sydney, where they Divorced in 1965. Donald died in 1969.