LEST WE FORGET
Warrant Officer Gordon Walter CLARKE
Service No: 405042
Born: Maryborough QLD, 7 May 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 6 January 1941
Unit: No. 1 Operational Training Unit, Bairnsdale VIC
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 1 Operational Training Unit Oxford aircraft BG119), near Bairnsdale, 19 September 1943, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Sale War Cemetery, VIC
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Walter Herbert and Ella Jensina Clarke, of Maryborough, Queensland.
Roll of Honour: Maryborough QLD
Remembered: Panel 112, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 19 September 1943, Airspeed Oxford BG119 crashed on the north shore of Victoria Lagoon, between Lake Victoria and Lake Wellington, killing its crew. The cause of the accident is reported as unknown. The crew members of BG119 were:
Flight Sergeant Titus Courlander Anderson (413521) (Navigator)
Warrant Officer Gordon Walter Clarke (405042) (Second Navigator)
Flight Sergeant James Archer Layton (415584) (Pilot)
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 A9845, 239