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Major DOUGLAS FAIRLEY COLSON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

521st Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 03 February 1919

Age 40 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DAMASCUS COMMONWEALTH WAR CEMETERY

B. 62.

Syria

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Service Order, Territorial Decoration
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred Colson, M.I.C.E., M.I.E.E., and Madge Colson, of Stoneleigh, Leicester; husband of Kate Parminter Colson, of "Hope Bank," Grosvenor Rd., Weymouth.
  • Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER
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