Claude Arthur COLWELL

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COLWELL, Claude Arthur

Service Number:	412574
Enlisted:	19 July 1941
Last Rank:	Aircraftman 2 (WW2)
Last Unit:	No. 1 Initial Training School Somers
Born:	Coonamble, New South Wales, Australia, 8 December 1922
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Illness, Flinders Naval Base Hospital, Victoria, Australia, 18 September 1941, aged 18 years
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Joshua Jordan Lawn, Row V, Grave 61
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement 412574
19 Jul 1941:	Enlisted 412574
18 Sep 1941:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 412574, No. 1 Initial Training School Somers

Biography contributed

Claude Arthur COLWELL was born in Coonamble, NSW on 8th December, 1922 - he enlisted with the RAAF under the name of his elder brother Raymond Leslie COLWELL

His parents were Leslie Sherringham COLWELL & Evelyn Violet COLLESS who married in Walgett, NSW on 23rd June, 1920

He enlisted with the RAAF on 19th July, 1941 and died from broncho pneumonia in the Flinders Naval Base Hospital in Victoria on 18th September 1942 and is buried in the Springvale Cemetery

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His Father Leslie Sherringham COLWELL (SN 59299) served during WW1 in the Australian Army and was discharged in 1918

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