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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.
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