Service Details
Name:
 BARRY
Given Name:
 AUSTEN KOLBE
Initials:
 A K
Service No:
 139220
Trade:
 Nav.
Rank:
 Flying Officer
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 38 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-02-03
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Date of Birth:
 1916-04-11
Age:
 27
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Wellington JA108, an air operation on enemy shipping off the Island of Patmos in the Aegean Sea on the night of 2 February 1944
Additional
Information:
Son of Anton Rector Kolbe Barry and Dorothy (nee Nankivell) Barry. Born Butterworth, Cape Province. Educated Victoria High School, Grahamstown; Cadet Draft 1932-3. Austen Kolbe Barry joined the Clan Line in 1934, in which he served during the first two years of the war. He then enlisted with the RAF.
Commemoration
Country:
 Greece
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Cemetery:
 RHODES WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 2. B. 3.

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