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PLAQUE NO 115:

Ross Nicholas George Zimbulis

Ross attended Hale School in the 1930s and when war broke out he joined
the Royal Australian Air Force and trained for aircrew through the Empire Air PLAQUE NO 117:
Training Scheme.
Sydney Campbell (Sam) Clarke (1928-29)
He was posted to Bairnsdale in Victoria, an airfield that tragically provided
many difficulties for aircrew during the war. Ross died on active service there on Sam attended Hale School from Nedlands with his twin brothers Colin and
the 4 April 1944.
Ken. He was a capable scholar and an outstanding sportsman at school
and represented the state as a schoolboy footballer.
Placed by former Hale School headmaster and Royal Australian Air Force
pilot, Dr Ken Tregonning (1936-41), who also spent some time at Bairnsdale After leaving school he won the state senior high jump championship in
during the war before being posted to England for further duties. 1932 and then joined the Claremont Football Club and was the first player
ever to win the Sandover Medal in his first year playing league football,
PLAQUE 116: 1933 - he followed by winning the medal in 1935 as well. He was to
represent the state in football from 1934 to 1939.
Matthew Ronald Wilson (1917-26) After the outbreak of the war he joined the Royal Australian Air Force and

trained as a pilot. Eventually he was transferred to No 8 Squadron to fly
Ron was the son of Hale School Headmaster, Mathew Wilson. He attended Beaufort bombers from Aitape in Northern New Guinea, against Japanese
Hale School from 1917 to 1926 and in his final year was a prefect, was a fine targets further northward.
footballer and cricketer and represented the School as a long jumper, hurdler
and high jumper in the Inters athletics programme. He and his crew were posted missing on their first operational flight against
Japanese targets further northward. It is believed the aircraft was caught
He eventually joined the 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion after the outbreak of the in a heavy tropical storm. Neither the crew nor the aircraft have ever been
war and, after training, was sent to Singapore. He was taken captive when that found.
city fell - and, after a time in Changi Prison, he was sent as part of a work party,
"E" Force, to Borneo in 1943. Laid by his Haleian brother, Mr Ken Clarke (1933-35), himself a Beaufort
pilot during the Second World War.
He died at Sandakan, North Borneo of malaria and meningitis on Christmas
Day 1944. He was 35 years of age.

Placed by his nephew, Mr Jim McManus.