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W. Clements |
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Full Names |
Rank /Unit |
Years at Q.E.G.S. |
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Walter Clements |
Flying Officer |
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Date / Place of Birth |
Date / Place of Death |
Age at Death |
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1914 |
Monday 21st, August 1944 |
30 |
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Walter was the son of Walter & Louisa Clements and their home, at the time of his death was 39B Union Street, Ryde, I.O.W. Thus, he might have been a boarder at W.G.S.
From School, Walter became a Civil Servant in the Inland Revenue. At the Reunion in July 1932, he performed in a concert, which followed the Dinner and Annual General Meeting on the Saturday, when he had been voted on to the O.W. Assoc. Committee. Also that year, he moved from the Poole to the Bournemouth Tax District.
A report of the A.G.M. in the summer of 1935, contained the following, " The agenda was steadily disposed of, in spite of much interruption by Messrs. Clements and Dunton, who appeared to think that the meeting was staged for their benefit." Never-
He was moved to Harrow toward the end of 1935, when it was reported that it, "...enabled him to forward a genuine excuse for his absence from the last Committee Meeting".
Walter (or Wobbly as he was known at school) wrote at Christmas 1936 and compared Harrow with Poole as, 'quiet, dull and dirty', adding that, '...skating at Wembley and gym once a week was keeping him A1.' He married Muriel Phyllis Clements of Harrow. Middlesex, in 1939.
After volunteering for service in the Royal Air Force, Walter trained as a Navigator and was commissioned.
It is not known when Walter joined his Squadron, which was re-
However, it is recorded that from July 1944, the Squadron was progressively converting to the Liberator Mk.viii and crews were retrained at a Heavy Conversion Unit ( No. 1673), situated at Kolar, some 200 miles to the west of Madras.
It was at Kolar that Walter died. W.G.S. understood that he had, "died of injuries" and it was thought that he had been involved in a crash during re-
Fg.Off. Walter Clements is interred in the Madras War Cemetery [Chennai] India. It was created by the Imperial War Graves Commission to receive 1939-
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The School Magazine recorded that, "Many will remember him as a boy of invariable cheerfulness and great charm, endowed with a perspicacity and alertness of mind, remarkable in one so young, and for his love of impersonation with which he always delighted his contemporaries".