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Sergeant ANDREW COLBOURNE

Service Number: 1474360
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

10 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 29 December 1943

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RUINERWOLD GENERAL CEMETERY

Grave 452.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Edith Mabel Colbourne, of Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART: FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

RUINERWOLD GENERAL CEMETERY
Drenthe Netherlands
Number of casualties: 6
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