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T/Sgt Fred VC. Clutter joined the Regular Army in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 2 January 1941.

He was awarded the Silver Star Medal posthumously for distinguishing himself by gallantry in action. During the crossing of the Mosel River a soldier became wounded in a mine field. Sgt Clutter volunteered to assist and lead the evacuation party which he rowed across the river in a boat to a point near the position of the wounded soldier. He jumped from the boat and began clearing a path to the man. When he discovered evacuation could be effected only by litter, he began to clear a space in which the litter could be placed. While probing this area he accidentally set off a mine and was mortally wounded.