LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Colin Gardner MacDONALD
Service No: 411511
Born: Dalmuir NSW, 2 September 1914
Enlisted in the RAAF: 24 May 1941
Unit: No. 100 Squadron, Milne Bay PNG
Died: Air Operations (No. 100 Squadron Beaufort aircraft A9-89), New Guinea, 28 September 1942, Aged 28 Years
Buried: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Thomas and Margaret Macdonald; husband of Rona Marjorie Macdonald, of Gunnedah. New South Wales. B. Ec.
Roll of Honour: Gunnedah NSW
Remembered: Panel 105, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Gunnedah Cenotaph, Gunnedah NSW
On 28 September 1942, Beaufort A9-89 crashed during an operation travel flight from Port Moresby to Gurney airfield. On board A9-89 were:
Flight Sergeant (later Flight Lieutenant) George Robert Daws (401288) (Wireless Air Gunner) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 9 November 1945
Squadron Leader Clifford Sidney Bernard (259) (Pilot)
Flying Officer Colin Gardiner MacDonald (411511) (Observer, Supernumerary)
Flying officer Leonard Herbert Ophel (407129) (Observer)
Sergeant William Henry Osborne (411513) (Wireless Air Gunner) Injured, Killed in an aircraft accident 11 September 1944
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A9300, MacDONALD C G
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line
Bibliography:
Wilson, S. (Stewart) Beaufort, Beaufighter and Mosquito in Australian Service, Aerospace Publications Weston Creek ACT 2611, 1990