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Son of John Russell Head and Anne Christina Head, of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR THE LAND HE LOVED - AUSTRALIA

Mr. and Mrs. Russell Head, of Ramita, Queen's rd., Melbourne, have been notified that their eldest son, Plt.-Off. Colin Wilfred Head, has been killed in the Middle East.
Plt.-Off. Head was bom at Kyneton in 1919, and was educated at Melbourne High School. When he enlisted he was a member of the staff of the Union Bank of Australia in Melbourne. He completed his  flying course in Canada and England. His brother John is in the AIF at Puckapunyal.

The aircraft of which he was the pilot set out on the morning of the 4th Januay 1942, in the company of three other Blenheims to fly to Gamut, landing at Heliopolis to refuel.  The accident occurrred as the formation was departing from Heliopolis.  Two of the aircraft were already airborne when he proceeded to take off.  His aircraft was seen to climb fairly steeply to a height of approximately fifty feet, when it turned shaply and dived into the ground with considerable force.  It will be of some comfort to know that from the nature of the accident it is believed that his death must have been instantaneous.

He had completed approximately two hundred and fifty hours dual and solo flying during fifty hours of which he had flown Blenheim aircraft.