Geoffrey Arnold COLLINS

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COLLINS, Geoffrey Arnold

Service Numbers:	13889, 416247
Enlisted:	30 August 1940, Enlisted into the Air Force Reserve
Last Rank:	Pilot Officer
Last Unit:	No. 100 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 23 September 1918
Home Town:	Millswood, City of Unley, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk - Adelaide Electric Supply Co.
Died:	Accidental, New Guinea, 9 January 1943, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea A3. C. 10.
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Rose Park Gartrell Memorial Church WW2 Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

30 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 13889, Enlisted into the Air Force Reserve
28 Apr 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 416247, Aircrew Training Units, Adelaide, SA
1 Jun 1941:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), No.1 Elementary Flying Training School Parafield, Empire Air Training Scheme
1 Jun 1941:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 416247, No.1 Elementary Flying Training School Parafield, Empire Air Training Scheme
9 Jan 1943:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 416247, No. 100 Squadron (RAAF), Air War SW Pacific 1941-45, Bristol Beaufort CAC A9-32 Previously T9584. Served with 100 Sqn. Crashed 09/01/1943 Normanby Island near Milne Bay, PNG returning from a mission over Gasmata. Crew; SGT Francis Owen Roberts 408521 (WAG), SGT Albert Roland Hayson 11639 (WAG), SGT Robert Forrest 408677 (pilot), PLTOFF Geoffrey Arnold Collins 416247 (observer) killed.

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Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

Son of Arnold William and Gertrude Elizabeth Collins; husband of Margaret Alison Collins, of Millswood Estate, South Australia.

FOR EVER HELD IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY BY ALL AT HOME

Mrs. G. A. Collins, of Irwin avenue, Millswood Estate, has been informed that her husband, Pilot-Officer Geoffrey Arnold Collins, who was previously reported missing, has now been officially reported killed In air operations on January 9.
Pilot-Officer Collins was a son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Collins. of Prescott Terrace, Rose Park.

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