Colin Norman AUER

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AUER, Colin Norman

Service Number:	170920
Enlisted:	20 October 1944
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 25 March 1926
Home Town:	Maryborough, Fraser Coast, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Carpenter
Died:	Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 19 September 2006, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Bundaberg General Cemetery, Queensland
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World War 2 Service

20 Oct 1944:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 170920
25 Sep 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 170920

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Leading Aircraftman Colin Norman Auer (Service No:170920) served in the RAAF from 20 October 1944 to 25 September 1945 and was attached to 7 Wireless Unit at Discharge.

Born in 1926 in Bundaberg QLD, Colin was the eldest of five children of Norman Edgar Auer (b1900 at Fairymead, QLD) and Mabel Fanny Collins (b1901 in Bundaberg, QLD). Norman (a Carpenter) and Mabel married in 1925 in Bundaberg, QLD where they settled and raised their family and Norman was a Carpenter.

Colin returned to Bundaberg and worked as a Carpenter following his Discharge. He died in 2006.

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