John Colclough BARLOW

BARLOW, John Colclough

    Service Number: 405992
    Enlisted: 20 July 1941
    Last Rank: Flight Lieutenant
    Last Unit: No. 106 Squadron (RAF)
    Born: Melbourne, Victoria, 10 June 1909
    Home Town: Rockhampton, Rockhampton, Queensland
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Bank Clerk
    Died: Flying Battle, Varrelbusch, Germany, 6 October 1944, aged 35 years
    Cemetery: Becklingen War Cemetery, Germany
    Plot 12, Row E, Site 1-2, Becklingen War Cemetery, Luneburg, Germany
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Monto War Memorial, Shire of Monto War Memorial
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    World War 2 Service

    20 Jul 1941: Involvement Flight Lieutenant, 405992, No. 106 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45
    20 Jul 1941: Enlisted Brisbane, Queensland
    20 Jul 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 405992

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    Biography

    Ft/Lt. Barlow of 106 Squadron went down in a Lancaster 1 PD 214, which crashed and exploded on impact at 22.00 hours. Their target had been Bremen in northwestern Germany.

    John Barlow had also served with the Naval Reserve between 1926-1931

    He was a son to Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Barlow, and the husband of Edna Ema Barlow of Rockhampton in Queensland

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