RANDALL, Clarence Douglas Plassey
| Service Number: | WX6083 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Gloucester, England, 1 May 1917 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Illness, Italy, 25 August 1943, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
Udine War Cemetery, Italy 33010 Tavagnacco di Udine, Friuli Venezia Giuli, location II A 13 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Fairbridge War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, WX6083 | |
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| 30 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX6083, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Clarence was an orphan, his unmarried mother Amy having died in 1918, aged about 19. He left Barnados in England in 1928 at age 11, in 1928. He was part of a group of 52 children bound for Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra, Western Australia, aboard Beltana.
Clarence was a POW on board the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio when it was torpedoed by a British submarine in the Mediterranean on 17 August 1942. The Nino Bixio was transporting Allied POWs from Libya to Italy.
Clarence was one of the 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident. According to the website ANZAC POWs, he was shot in Italy as a POW, eight days later.