Arthur Kevin CLAUSEN

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Service Number:	439868
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

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 439868
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)

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