Colin Carl TRUMAN

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Service Number:	402766
Enlisted:	14 October 1940
Last Rank:	Pilot Officer
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Inverell, New South Wales, Australia, 18 August 1909
Home Town:	Lane Cove, Lane Cove, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Flying Battle, Aegean Sea, 15 February 1943, aged 33 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Alamein Memorial, El Alamein War Cemetery, El Alamein, Marsa Matruh, Egypt Col 277
Memorials:	Alamein Memorial (El Alamein), Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Pilot Officer, 402766
14 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 402766

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Marauder FK150 of 14 Squadron RAF crashed into the Aegean Sea with all crew killed:

Hope, Robert Edward Herbert (Flight Sergeant) 407363 RAAF

Thompson, Jack Irvine (Flight Sergeant) 403437 RAAF

Truman, Colin Carl (Pilot Officer) 402766 RAAF

Connell, Bernard Thomas (Flying Officer) 402853 RNZAF

Firth, Kenneth (Sergeant) RAF 1068543

Semple, William James (Sergeant) RAF 542705

Their bodies were not recovered and they are commemorated on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt