Colin Bernard CRABBE

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CRABBE, Colin Bernard

Service Number:	420453
Enlisted:	8 November 1941
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 10 Elementary Flying Training School, Temora
Born:	Suva, Fiji, 8 February 1920
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Accountant
Died:	Ground Battle, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, 23 May 1943, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Bournemouth North Cemetery, England Grave H4/94 Bournemouth North Cemetery, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 420453
8 Nov 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 420453
3 May 1942:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, 420453, No. 10 Elementary Flying Training School, Temora

Biography contributed by David Barlow

Attack by Luftwaffe FW190 aircraft which damaged hotels in Bournemouth administered by RAAF Number 3 Personnel Despatch & Reception Centre as leave / recreation centres.

3PDRC operated in Bournemouth from July 1941 to January 1946 administering RAAF and some RCAF personnel. 21 airmen were killed in the raid: 3 members of the RAF; 13 RCAF and 7 RAAF

Crabbe, Colin Bernard (Flight Sergeant) 420453

Fenton, Ronald Franklin (Sergeant) 412938

Gray, Neil Morton (Sergeant) 420618

Kerrigan, Allan (Flight Sergeant) 420681

McMahon, John Francis (Flight Sergeant) 409848

Mills, George Arthur (Sergeant) 33250

Pope, Vivian Lewis (Sergeant) 416993

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