Clifford David SEARLE

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SEARLE, Clifford David

Service Number:	76295
Enlisted:	22 June 1942
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	Repair and Servicing Units
Born:	Westbrook, Queensland, Australia, 8 September 1914
Home Town:	Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Accidental (Aircraft accident), At sea, Torres Strait, Off Thursday Island, 22 August 1944, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Sydney Memorial, Rookwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Newtown State School War Memorial, Sydney Memorial (Sydney War Cemetery) Rookwood, Toowoomba Grammar School WW2 Honour Board, Toowoomba Roll of Honour WW2, Toowoomba WW2 Roll of Honour Book, Toowoomba War Memorial (Mothers' Memorial)

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement 76295
22 Jun 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 76295, Repair and Servicing Units
22 Jun 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 76295

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Norseman aircraft A71-1 from 5 Communication Unit based at Garbutt crashed into the sea near Boigu Island in the Torres Strait

Flight Sergeant Frank Henry Rossiter 432268 / LAC Clifford David Searle 76295 / LAC John Norman George Dunn 28046 were killed - their bodies were not recovered and they are commemorated on the Sydney Memorial

Corporal Victor Clifford Robinson 33134 / LAC Leslie James Hart 63374 / LAC David Roy Tomasetti 41715 all survived

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