Thomas Hugh BARCLAY

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Service Number:	430952
Enlisted:	23 April 1943, Enlisted at Melbourne
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 18 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Bowral, Victoria, Australia, 23 February 1925
Home Town:	Avoca, Pyrenees, Victoria
Schooling:	Maryborough High School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Student
Died:	Flying Battle, New Guinea, 1 September 1944, aged 19 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia CWGC Grave No: Plot 3. Row A. Collective Grave 6-10.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 430952
23 Apr 1943:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 430952, Enlisted at Melbourne
1 Sep 1944:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, No. 18 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron (RAAF), Killed in air operations over Kai Island, New Guinea.

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Son Thomas Hugh and Anne Elizabeth Barclay of Warren, NSW

Plane was a Mitchell N5-214 which was lost near Kai Island.

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