Colin Edward Hunter BARNFIELD

BARNFIELD, Colin Edward Hunter

    Service Number: 433709
    Enlisted: 8 May 1943
    Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
    Last Unit: Operational Training Units (RAF)
    Born: Waverley, New South Wales, Australia, 26 March 1925
    Home Town: Bondi Junction , New South Wales
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Telegraphic Messenger - PMG
    Died: Accidental, Palestine, 8 January 1945, aged 19 years
    Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
    Alamein Memorial, El Alamein, Maṭrūḥ, Egypt. Column 284.
    Memorials: Alamein Memorial (El Alamein), Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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    World War 2 Service

    3 Sep 1939: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, 433709
    8 May 1943: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, 433709
    8 Jan 1945: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 433709, Operational Training Units (RAF), 78 Operational Training

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    Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

    Colin Edward Hunter BARNFIELD was born in Waverley, Sydney, NSW on 26th March, 1925

    His parents were George Edward BARNFIELD & Maude Elizabeth SAUL who married in Sydney in 1924

    He enlisted in the RAAF on 8th March, 1943 & was with the 78 Operational Training Unit, RAF when his plane disappeared during a training run - his body was unrecovered (lost at sea)

    His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial & the Alamein Memorial

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