CLOVER, Frederick John
| Service Number: | VX59071 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 July 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Mildura, Victoria, Australia , 28 July 1922 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Printer and Bandsman |
| Died: | Killed in Action, New Guinea, 24 January 1945, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Port Moresby Memorial, Port Moresby, Papua, Papua New Guinea Panel 2 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Port Moresby (Bomana) Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, VX59071 | |
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| 7 Jul 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX59071, 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion | |
| 18 Sep 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX59071, 19th Australian Infantry Training Battalion | |
| 2 Apr 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX59071, 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion, embarked Middle East for Adelaide on board the Aronda | |
| 7 Dec 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX59071, 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion, embarked Cairns for Aitape |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Frederick John Clover (Service No:VX59071) enlisted in the Austalian Army on 5 July 1941, and was a Private attached to 19th Australian Infantry Training Battalion when he embarked with his Unit for the Middle East on 18 September 1941. Posted to 2/8th Infantry Battalion on 31 January 1942, Private Clover embarked from the Middle East for Adelaide on board the Aronda on 29 March 1942. Private Clover served in Darwin, Northern Territory (3 June 1942 - 16 June 1943) and embarked from Cairns for Aitape on 7 September 1944. Private Clover was KiA on 24 January 1945 - 'body never recovered' (NAA). His father served in WWI and WWII, and was in New Guinea in 1943/1944.
Jack was born in 1922 in Mildura, Victoria, eldest child of John (Fred) Frederick Clover (b1897 in Birchip, Victoria) and his first wife Annie (Nellie) Eleanor Hancock (b1897 in Ballarat, Victoria). Fred was a member of the Ouyen Rifle Club and a Farmer when he enlisted in the AIF in 1915. Following his Discharge, he and Nellie married in Ouyen, Victoria in 1921, and lived in Mildura, where they raised their family and Fred worked as a Farmer and Telephone Lineman. Following Nellie's death in 1938, Fred remarried in 1939 and settled in Melbourne where he worked as a Telephone Lineman.
Jack was working in Melbourne as a Printer and Bandsman in 1941 when he enlisted in the Army.
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