Private WILLIAM LEWIS COLWELL
Service Number: 876958
Regiment & Unit/Ship
The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.
12th (10th Bn. The Green Howards [Yorkshire Regt.]) Bn.
Date of Death
Died 12 June 1944
Age 31 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of William Albert and Eva Colwell; husband of Gertrude Mary Colwell, of Great Ayton, Yorkshire.
- Personal Inscription FOR US HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT WE MIGHT LIVE IN PEACE. GOD GRANT HIM ETERNAL REST
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