LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Kenneth CLARKE
Service No: 403797
Born: Boggabri NSW, 21 January 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 3 March 1941
Unit: No. 208 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations (No. 208 Squadron Hurricane aircraft Z2328), Egypt, 28 July 1942, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Isaac Daniel and Catherine Ann Clark, of Boggabri, New South Wales. Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Column 265 Alamein Memorial, Egypt
Remembered: Panel 120, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Boggabri War Memorial, Boggabri NSW
Hurricane Z2328 flown by Pilot Officer Clarke was shot down in the El Alamein – Daba area, Egypt, by a German Me109 on 28 July 1942. His remains could not be located and he was considered lost in the minefields when a further search after the war had to be abandoned.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/26/245
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line