LEST WE FORGET
Squadron Leader Clifford Sidney BERNARD
Service No: 259
Born: Sydney NSW, 11 September 1916
Enlisted in the RAAF: 17 January 1938 (at RAAF Station Point Cook VIC)
Unit: No. 100 Squadron, Milne Bay PNG
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 100 Squadron Beaufort aircraft A9-89), New Guinea, 28 September 1942, Aged 26 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of David Leon and Florence Maud Bernard; husband of Gwendolyn Mary Bernard, of Mount Macedon, Victoria.
Roll of Honour: Toorak VIC
Remembered: Panel 9, Port Moresby Memorial, PNG
Remembered: Panel 104, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 28 September 1942, Beaufort A9-89 crashed during an operation travel flight from Port Moresby to Gurney airfield. On board A9-89 were:
Flight Sergeant (later Flight Lieutenant) George Robert Daws (401288) (Wireless Air Gunner) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 9 November 1945
Squadron Leader Clifford Sidney Bernard (259) (Pilot)
Flying Officer Colin Gardiner MacDonald (411511) (Observer, Supernumerary)
Flying Officer Leonard Herbert Ophel (407129) (Observer)
Sergeant William Henry Osborne (411513) (Wireless Air Gunner) Injured, Killed in an aircraft accident: 11 September 1944
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/20/160
Bibliography:
Wilson, S. (Stewart) Beaufort, Beaufighter and Mosquito in Australian Service, Aerospace Publications Weston Creek ACT 2611, 1990