Frederick Ramsay MCCOLL

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MCCOLL, Frederick Ramsay

Service Number:	407559
Enlisted:	9 October 1940, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Exeter, South Australia, Australia , 24 January 1912
Home Town:	Semaphore, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Cashier
Died:	Flying Battle, Sumatra, 14 February 1942, aged 30 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Singapore War Memorial, Singapore Col 422
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Singapore Memorial Kranji War Cemetery, St Clair Woodville High School Honour Roll

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Sergeant, 407559
9 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, Adelaide, SA
9 Nov 1940:	Involvement Sergeant, 407559
9 Nov 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Alexander Stewart McColl and Mabel Ellen McColl, of Semaphore, South Australia.

Mr. and Mrs. A. S. McColl, of Dunn street, Semaphore, have been officially advised that their eldest son, Frederick Ramsay, has been classified as killed in action on February 15, 1942, at Palambang, Sumatra. Before enlisting in the RAAF in 1940 he was cashier at A. and E. LeMessurier, Ltd., Port Adelaide. At the time of his death he was WAG of a Hudson bomber crew.

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