Colin Irwin REYNOLDS

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REYNOLDS, Colin Irwin

Service Number:	415276
Enlisted:	17 August 1941
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	No. 467 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Perth, Western Australia, 23 May 1912
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Supervisor – Structural Engineering Works
Died:	Flying Battle, Germany, 6 January 1944, aged 31 years
Cemetery:	Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery 6 A 11
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flying Officer, 415276
17 Aug 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 415276
15 Oct 1942:	Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer
20 Oct 1942:	Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 415276, embarked Sydney for UK – attached RAF 11 Personnel and Despatch Reception Centre
15 Apr 1943:	Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, No. 467 Squadron (RAAF)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Flying Officer Colin Irwin Reynolds (Service No:415276) enlisted in the RAAF on 17 August 1941 - Leading Aircraftman attached to 5 Initial Training School (ITS) Pearce, and in early 1942 was at HQ Pearce, 9 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) Cunderdin and 4 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) Geraldton. Promoted on 15 October 1942, Pilot Officer Reynolds embarked from Sydney for England in November - attached to the RAF, initially at 11 Personnel and Despatch Reception Centre (PDRC). Promoted to Flying Officer on 15 April 1943, FO Reynolds had eleven operations logged over Europe - his first flight with No 467 Squadron was on 27 September 1943. Flying Officer Reynolds was flying Lancaster ED994 IBCC on a bombing mission over Germany on 6 January 1944 when he was KIA in a flying battle.

Born in 1912 in Perth WA, Colin was the eldest of seven children of Ernest (Stan) Stanley Reynolds (b1887 in Newcastle, NSW) and Florence Ellen Atherton Lippiatt (b1893 in Nambucca Heads, NSW). Stan (a Clerk in Perth, WA in 1910) and Florence married in 1911 in Busselton WA. Stan worked as a Civil Servant - a Clerk, Surveyor and Resident Magistrate - in Perth, Broome and Albany before retiring to Sydney NSW in the late 1940s. Florence managed a Laundry in Subiaco, Perth WA in the late 1920s.

Colin worked at Bamboo Mines in the Pilbara as an Electrician, served with the Citizen Forces in 1928 (44th Battalion), as a Clerk (Crown Law and Mines) and was a Supervisor with Structural Engineering Works in Perth in 1940 when he married Constance Isabel Kelly (b1914 in Greenbushes, WA). Following Colin's death in 1944, Constance remarried.

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