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Corporal GEORGE COLEMAN

Service Number: 2017896
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

578 Army Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 12 August 1943

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

II. B. 32.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward Coleman, and of Hariet Coleman, of Tyseley, Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription YOU REST IN PEACEFUL SLEEP MEMORIES OF YOU WE'LL KEEP WHEN LIFE'S JOURNEY IS OVER WE AGAIN SHALL MEET. R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2142
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