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Major FRANCIS JOHN COLWILL

Service Number: 100027
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 July 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX

IV. H. 13.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Morley and Sophia Colwill; husband of Edith Rebecca Colwill, of Chudleigh, Devon.
  • Personal Inscription WE WALK IN A GARDEN OF BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES OF A DEVOTED HUSBAND AND DADDY
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2182
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