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Lieutenant Colonel FRANCIS HENRY COLSON

Service Number: 163560
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 13 May 1942

Age 64 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LACOCK CEMETERY

Grave 435.

United Kingdom

Top of headstone eroding and RE cap badge starting to lose definition.

Photographer: Jon Wort

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Order of the Nile (Egypt). Son of Frank and Petrenella Colson; husband of Ernestine Mary Colson, of Killin, Perthshire. Twice Mentioned in Despatches in the 1914-1918 War. A.M.I.I.E., F.R.G.S.
  • Personal Inscription "BELOVED LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER FOR LOVE IS OF GOD" "GOD IS LOVE"
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