Service Details
Name:
 RANDLE
Given Name:
 COLIN JAMES
Initials:
 C J
Service No:
 407275
Rank:
 Pilot Officer
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Regiment:
 Royal Australian Air Force
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Date of Death:
 1943-06-08
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Date of Birth:
 1919-01-09
Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Baltimore AH171, took off from Gambut III for a sweep of the Aegean Sea. The aircraft climbed to 1,000 feet and commenced a normal left hand circuit. The aircraft then turned cross-wind and commenced a shallow dive which continued without check until the aircraft struck the ground, killing its four crew members. The most probable cause of the accident was assessed as either the pilot's survival dinghy inflating and pushing the control column forward or the elevator control in the navigator's compartment jamming
Additional
Information:
Son of James Kinnear Randle and Orynthia Millicent Randle, of St. Leonards, South Australia. Born Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia. Entered Grey House in January, 1932. At the outbreak of war he was in Australia and received his training there before being posted to the Middle East. On Plumtree School Roll of Honour
Commemoration
Country:
 Libya
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Cemetery:
 TOBRUK WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 2. A. 7.

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