REDMAN, Colin Robert
| Service Numbers: | V41182, VX112681 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 January 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
| Born: | Stratford, Victoria, Australia , 21 July 1920 |
| Home Town: | Stratford, Wellington, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Motor Mechanic |
| Died: | Geelong, Victoria, Australia , 10 December 1957, aged 37 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Geelong Eastern Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 31 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Private, V41182, 37/52 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF | |
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| 18 Aug 1942: | Transferred Australian Army (Post WW2), General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), Driver | |
| 18 Aug 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX112681 | |
| 3 Apr 1946: | Discharged VX112681, Private: HQ Lae Base Sub Area | |
| 3 Apr 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX112681 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Private, VX112681 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Colin was the third of seven children of Percy Harold Redman (born 1888 in Mirim Pirim, Victoria) and Violet Ellen Parke (born 1896 in Warragul, Victoria). Percy was a Farmer at Moe in Gippsland, Victoria in 1916 when he married Violet. By 1928 the family was at Straford in Gippsland, Victoria where Percy was a Contractor.
Colin was working as a Garage Mechanic in Stratford, Victoria when he enlisted in the ACMF in January 1942. He served as a Private (Service No:V41182) with the 37th Infantry Battalion and was in Alice Springs in August 1942 when he enlisted with the Australian Army as a Driver (Service No:VX112681) with 1st General Transport Coy. Colin served in New Guinea from July 1945 to February 1946, and from March to May 1945 he participated in Mustard Gas Trials with 1 Australian Field Trials Coy. He was attached to HQ Lae Base Sub Area when he was Discharged in April 1946. Sister Elsie May Redman (Lieutenant, Service Nos:QX4095/Q142204) and brother Sydney David Redman (Private, Service No:V285443) also served in WWII.
In 1949 Colin married Marianne Constance Lodding (born 1924 in Geelong Victoria) in Geelong, Victoria - Colin was working as a Motor Mechanic and Marianne as a Machine Operator. Colin and Marianne lived in Melbourne, Victoria where Colin worked as a Mechanic before moving to Geelong by 1954. Colin was plagued by ill health - attributed to his participation in Mustard Gas Trials during WWII - and he died in Geelong in 1957. Marianne died in 2006.