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Private LEONARD COLBOURNE

Service Number: 4920807
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 March 1943

Buried or commemorated at

SFAX WAR CEMETERY

VII. D. 21.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Whotton Colbourne and Gertrude Ellen Colbourne; husband of Mildred Joyce Colbourne, of Burton-on-Trent.
  • Personal Inscription SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND LEONARD. SLEEP ON, BELOVED SLEEP, AND TAKE THY REST
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Buried or commemorated at

SFAX WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1255
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