Hugh V. Clarke

Hugh Vincent Clarke was an Australian author specializing in military history.

He was born in Brisbane, Australia, on 27 November 1919 and was a cadet surveyor with the Queensland Main Roads Commission. He left the Commission to enlist in the 2/10th Field Regiment, Eighth Division in July 1940. He served as a bombadier in Malaya and in Singapore before being taken prisoner by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore. He was imprisoned in Changi Prison and also forced to work on the infamous Thai-Burma Railway.

After the war he joined the Commonwealth Public Service and became Director of Information and Public Relations for the Department of External Affairs in Canberra.

Bibliography

*"The Tub", Hugh V Clarke, Jacaranda Press, Canberra, 1963, ISBN 1-86340-265-9
*"Fire One! Midget submarines attack Sydney and Mass Breakout at Cowra", Hugh V Clarke, Arkon Paperback, 1965, ISBN 0-207-13620-3
*"The Long Arm - Biography of a Northern Territory Policeman", Hugh V Clarke, Roebuck Society Publication, Canberra, 1974 ISBN 0 909434034
*"Prisoners of War", Hugh V Clarke, Colin Burgess, Russell Braddon, Time-Life Books, Sydney, 1988, ISBN 0 949118 25 7
*"Barbed Wire and Bamboo: Australian POW Stories", Hugh V Clarke, Colin Burgess, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1993, ISBN 1 86373 313 2