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Sapper GEORGE WILLIAM COLBOURNE

Service Number: 2039862
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

54 Field Coy

Date of Death

Died 13 March 1941

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ISMAILIA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

3. A. 5.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frederick Arthur and Rosina Annie Colbourne, of Hilsea, Portsmouth.
  • Personal Inscription GOD BE WITH YOU TILL WE MEET AGAIN. LOVE, MUM
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Buried or commemorated at

ISMAILIA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 967
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