Colin Royal BUNDARA

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BUNDARA, Colin Royal

Service Numbers:	419636, V211147
Enlisted:	3 January 1940
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Coburg, Victoria, Australia, 14 July 1918
Home Town:	Brighton, Bayside, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Ground Battle, Woensdrecht Airfield near Antwerp, Holland, Netherlands, 18 February 1945, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery, Netherlands Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery, Netherlands
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 419636
3 Jan 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V211147
11 Sep 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 419636
Date unknown:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 419636

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Flight Sergeant Colin Royal Bundara 419636 RAAF operated in Europe with Number 453 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF based at landing ground B.70, a former German airfield near Antwerp, from June 1944 until the end of September 1944

At the conclusion of the 453SQN deployment he returned with the Squadron to RAF Station Coltishall in Norfolk, England

FSGT Bundara returned to Holland to fly with Number 127 Squadron RAF operating from Woensdrecht Airfield, 15 miles north-west of Antwerp where he was killed by the detonation of a land-mine

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