Colin Millis CAMPBELL

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CAMPBELL, Colin Millis

Service Number:	402436
Enlisted:	19 August 1940
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 460 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia, 19 December 1912
Home Town:	Quirindi, Liverpool Plains, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Public Accountant
Died:	Injuries (Prisoner of War), Bad Homburg Hospital Germany, 29 August 1942, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany Plot 5. Row E. Grave 14., Durnbach War Cemetery, Bavaria, Germany
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Quirindi & District Memorial and Clock Tower

19 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 402436, Aircrew Training Units
19 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 402436
29 Aug 1942:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 402436, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45
29 Aug 1942:	Imprisoned Prisoners of War

Biography contributed by David Barlow

460SQN Wellington Z 1412 crashed near Leiden on the Dutch Coast on the 8th of June 1942 - Sergeant Campbell was taken POW and died in Germany from his injuries (his brother Lang Campbell NX28995 also died as a POW)

All other known crew survived the war after being taken POW: Flight Lieutenant Douglas David Hurditch 402862 RAAF (discharged in 1975 as an Air Vice Marshal O21976) / Sergeant Eric Frances Maher 404448 RAAF (discharged December 1945) / Sergeant Tinkler 1006942 RAF / Flight Sergeant Henden 747961 RAF

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