LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Clement John JAMISON
Service No: 413603
Born: Kew VIC, 22 September 1913
Enlisted in the RAAF: 12 September 1941 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 42 Operational Training Unit (RAF), RAF Station Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 42 Operational Training Unit Whitley aircraft T4339), Severn River, 23 August 1943, Aged 29 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Samuel Eades Jamison and Dorothy Mary Jamison; husband of Ruth Mary Jamison, of Roseville, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Roseville NSW
Remembered: Panel 193, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 124, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2030 hours on 23 August 1943 Whitley T4339 took off from Ashbourne to carry out a night cross country training flight. The proposed route was RAF Ashbourne – Andover – Castle
Cary – Lundy Isle – Shaftesbury – return to Ashbourne. The aircraft failed to return to base from the exercise. The wreck of the aircraft was located in the River Severn between Charleston Light and Dun Sands, about 15 miles east of Newport. The remains of the three RCAF members of the crew members were recovered, while Flight Sergeant Jamison is listed as having no known grave.
The crew members of T4339 were:
Flying Officer Robert Warren Conway (J/23055) (RCAF) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Clement John Jamison (413603) (Navigator Bomb Aimer)
Flight Sergeant Roy Hamilton Smith (R/176376) (RCAF) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Harold Claude Ward (R/104222) (RCAF) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
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, 166/20/62