COLE, Colin Leslie
| Service Number: | NX68170 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 February 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
| Born: | Portland, New South Wales, Australia, 12 October 1919 |
| Home Town: | Murwillumbah, Tweed, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Murwillumbah State Schools, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Photographer |
| Died: | Cancer, Cairns, Queensland, Australia., 19 November 1976, aged 57 years |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 7 Feb 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Sergeant, NX68170, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
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| 9 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Sergeant, NX68170, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
Service prior to 1941
Colin Leslie Cole, prior to enlisting in the 2nd. AIF in 1941, was a corporal infantry instructor in the Militia serving in Murwillumbah N.S.W.
He was with the Militia prior to the commencement of hostilities in 1939.
As an instructor he was restricted from serving overseas with the men he had trained. This led to his applying to join the 104th. Australian General Transport Co.
At some stage he was offered a Commission if he joined a Tank Corps in Western Australia but opted to serve in the Middle East with the transport company. He saw service in Palestine and Syria and returned to Australia on MV "Esperance Bay" when the AIF was recalled to face the Japanese forces.
He served in the Finschhafen area of New Guinea.
On returning from New Guinea he was stationed at Wondecla on the Atherton Tablelands when the war ended.
Submitted 22 June 2022 by Grahame Cole
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