Mick Clifford (rugby union)
| 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.
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. He was on the abandoned 1939–40 tour of Britain and Ireland with the Wallabies. After a 100-point season with St. George in 1940, Clifford enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force.
Clifford, who reached the rank of flight sergeant, was a Spitfire pilot with a Royal Air Force squadron during the war. Back in Australia in 1942, he was killed in a training accident, while flying over Broken Bay near Terrigal.