CLARKSON, James Robert
| Service Number: | Q13792 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 September 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 7 Field Regiment AMF |
| Born: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 14 June 1916 |
| Home Town: | Ipswich, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 13 February 2002, aged 85 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Warrill Park Lawn Cemetery, Qld |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 4 Sep 1940: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Sapper, Q13792, 7 Field Regiment AMF, RAE | |
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| 4 Sep 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q13792 | |
| 21 Jun 1941: | Involvement Sapper, Q13792 | |
| 21 Jun 1941: | Enlisted | |
| 5 Nov 1941: | Discharged Australian Army (Post WW2), Sapper, Q13792, 7 Field Regiment AMF, RAE | |
| 5 Nov 1941: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q13792 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
James (Jnr) was the eldest of three children of James Maher Clarkson (born in Booval in Ipswich QLD in 1890) and Emma Jane Spall (born in Booval, Ipswich QLD in 1892). James Snr was a Miner.
James (Jnr) was a Labourer in Booval, Ipswich in QLD when he enlisted in the Australian Army in 1940 as a Sapper (Service No: Q13792). He served with 7th Field Comapny Royal Australian Engineers and was Discharged in November 1941.
James returned to Booval in Ipswich QLD and was working as a Labourer when he married Hazel Mole (born 1919 in Bundamba, QLD) in the mid 1940s in Ipswich.
James and Hazel settled in Booval, Ipswich QLD where James worked as a Labourer before he joined the Coal Mines as a Miner in the early 1950s. James and Hazel remained in Booval, Ipswich QLD where James worked as Coal Miner until he retired in 1976. Hazel died in 1981 and James in 2002