Colin Edwards MCLENNAN

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MCLENNAN, Colin Edwards

Service Number:	WX506
Enlisted:	7 November 1939
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/11th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia, 24 June 1912
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 12 May 1945, aged 32 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Corporal, WX506
7 Nov 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, WX506, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion
10 Jan 1940:	Promoted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion
20 Apr 1940:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, WX506, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion, embarked for Kantara per HMAT A3
10 Apr 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, WX506, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion, embarked Gaza for Greece; returned to Egypt in May
17 Mar 1942:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, WX506, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion, embarked ME for Adelaide per Durban Castle
5 Nov 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, WX506, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion, embarked Townsville for Aitape per Katoomba

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Corporal Colin Edward McLennan (Service No:WX506) enlisted in the AIF on 7 November 1939 as a Private attached to 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion and was promoted to Corporal on 10 January 1940. Corporal McLennan served in Egypt and Greece (April 1940 - March 1942) and embarked with 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion from Townsville for Aitape on 5 November 1944. Corporal McLennan was KiA in New Guinea on 12 May 1945.

Born in 1912 in Perth WA, Colin was the second of five children of John McLennan (b1866 in Mondrook, NSW) and Florence Edna Meyer (b1886 in Eudunda, South Australia), John (a Clerk) and Florence married in 1907 and settled in Fremantle WA where they raised their family and John worked as a Clerk for D & J Fowler Ltd until his death in 1919.

Colin was a Clerk in Perth WA when he enlisted in the Army in 1939.

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