With sadness, the progress association notes the passing of one of our retired Dad’s Army veterans, Cliff Olsen.
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Cliff and his wife Kath were both involved in the Association’s activities for about 15 years, with particularly Cliff, in Dad’s Army volunteering.
Cliff and Kath lived in Bounty Key from 1993 to about 2007.
Cliff put his age up to enlist during World War II in 1941, was serving with the 2/18 Battalion during the fall of Singapore and spent the remainder of the war as a POW in the notorious Changi prison.
Following the war, Cliff married Kath and they lived on the Northern Beaches of Sydney until they retired to Bounty Key in Forster Keys about 1993.
Soon after, Cliff’s close brother and mate Bill and his wife Leila joined them in the Keys.
Bill and Leila still reside in Roebuck Key and Bill is still an active and regular Dad’s Army member.
About 2007, Cliff and Kath returned to Collaroy in Sydney to be close to family and veteran’s health care.
Following a period of nursing home Care, Cliff died peacefully on Monday, October 3 2016.
He was 93-years.
