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Lieutenant JOHN FOSTER COLEMAN

Service Number: 23172
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Infantry

Date of Death

Died 23 March 1943

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SFAX WAR CEMETERY

X. E. 10.

Tunisia

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. H.Q. 6th N.Z. Inf. Bde.
  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of Benjamin Coleman and Helen Coleman (nee Foster), of Dargaville, Auckland, New Zealand; husband of Joy Iwa Coleman, of Huntly, Auckland.
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Buried or commemorated at

SFAX WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1255
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