Full name | Michael Clifford | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 28 April 1916 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Forbes, NSW, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 9 October 1942 | (aged 26)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | off Terrigal, NSW, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
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Michael Clifford (28 April 1916 — 9 October 1942) was an Australian rugby union international.
Clifford was born in Forbes and attended Bathurst's St Stanislaus' College. [1]
A goal-kicking fullback, Clifford played first-grade for St. George and was capped once for the Wallabies, against the All Blacks at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1938. [2] He was on the abandoned 1939–40 tour of Britain and Ireland with the Wallabies. [2] After a 100-point season with St. George in 1940, Clifford enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force. [2] [3]
Clifford, who reached the rank of flight sergeant, was a Spitfire pilot with a Royal Air Force squadron during the war. [2] Back in Australia in 1942, he was killed in a training accident, while flying over Broken Bay near Terrigal. [2] [4]
Full name | Michael Clifford | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 28 April 1916 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Forbes, NSW, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 9 October 1942 | (aged 26)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | off Terrigal, NSW, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Michael Clifford (28 April 1916 — 9 October 1942) was an Australian rugby union international.
Clifford was born in Forbes and attended Bathurst's St Stanislaus' College. [1]
A goal-kicking fullback, Clifford played first-grade for St. George and was capped once for the Wallabies, against the All Blacks at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1938. [2] He was on the abandoned 1939–40 tour of Britain and Ireland with the Wallabies. [2] After a 100-point season with St. George in 1940, Clifford enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force. [2] [3]
Clifford, who reached the rank of flight sergeant, was a Spitfire pilot with a Royal Air Force squadron during the war. [2] Back in Australia in 1942, he was killed in a training accident, while flying over Broken Bay near Terrigal. [2] [4]