COLES, Mervyn Lloyd
| Service Number: | 437395 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 January 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Flight Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Broken Hill, New South Wales Australia , 22 April 1921 |
| Home Town: | Broken Hill, Broken Hill Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Sydney Teachers College, New South Wales Australia |
| Occupation: | School Teacher |
| Died: | Natural, Riverview New South Wales, 16 April 2012, aged 90 years |
| Cemetery: |
Macquarie Park Cemetery & Crematorium, North Ryde, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 30 Jan 1943: | Involvement Flight Lieutenant, 437395 | |
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| 30 Jan 1943: | Enlisted Adelaide | |
| 30 Jan 1943: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 437395 | |
| 16 Oct 1945: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graham Padget
Mervyn Lloyd Coles was the son of Andrew Coles and Emily Matilda (née Pearce). He passed his Leaving Certificate and was awarded a scholarship at Sydney Teachers College.
His first teaching post was in his hometown of Broken Hill and then onto the tin mining town of Tallebung from where he enlisted in the RAAF.
At 23 Squadron (RAAF) Lloyd was the leading wireless operator in Squadron Leader Ray Cupper's B24 Liberator crew. Additionally as Lloyd was a teacher he was appointed as 23 Squadron's Education Officer.
(compiled and edited from various 23Squadron related sites https://linfordresearch.info/ www.b24australia.org.au/assets/library/0238.jpg)
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