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Flt.Sgt. John Charles Everett Clarke
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 29 Squadron
(d.21st June 1943)
John Clarke was the son of Major Joseph Clarke,DSO MC TD Royal Engineers and Lucy Ann (nee Driver) of Bow, London.
He was born at Chesterfield, Derbyshire on 30th of October 1923 and is buried at Brookwood Military Cemetery, near Pirbright, Essex.
On 21st June 1943 his Mosquito night-fighter was badly damaged and he had to ditch into the sea and he and his navigator were killed. However their bodies were recovered.