CLAUSEN, Arthur Kevin
Service Number: | 439868 |
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Enlisted: | 14 August 1943 |
Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
Last Unit: | No. 99 Squadron (RAAF) |
Born: | Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, 24 June 1925 |
Home Town: | Chatswood, Willoughby, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Accidental (Aircraft accident), Amberley, Queensland, Australia, Amberley, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 16 August 1945, aged 20 years |
Cemetery: |
Ipswich General Cemetery, Qld C of E Plot Section A Grave B292 , Ipswich General Cemetery, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Sydney Lands Department WW2 Honour Roll |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Flight Sergeant, 439868 | |
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14 Aug 1943: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, Aircrew Training Units | |
14 Aug 1943: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 439868 | |
16 Aug 1945: | Involvement Flight Sergeant, 439868, No. 99 Squadron (RAAF) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
Son of Horace Christian and Olga Blanche Clausen of Chatswood, NSW
Liberator A72-306 of Number 99 Squadron crashed on take-off from Amberley Airfield with four personnel on board killed:
Corporal Jacqueline Ruth Row WAAAF 98112 of Number 3 Aircraft Depot
Corporal Edith Tansley Sharpe WAAAF 94089 of Number 3 Aircraft Depot
Flight Sergeant Arthur Kevin Clausen 439868 of Number 99 Squadron
Warrant Officer Eric Ferdinand Carlson 424965 of Number 99 Squadron died two days after the incident in Greenslopes hospital