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Corporal JAMES WILLIAM COLVIN

Service Number: 320798
Regiment & Unit/Ship

London Regiment (City of London Rifles)

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 March 1918

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY

VII. E. 20.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 1st/15th Bn. London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Albert Edward and Jessie Colvin, of Poplar, London.
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Buried or commemorated at

PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1763
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