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Deck Hand WILLIAM WALTER COLBY

Service Number: 6207/DA
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Naval Reserve

H.M. Trawler "Bracklyn."

Date of Death

Died 11 May 1917

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LOWESTOFT (NORMANSTON DRIVE) CEMETERY

13. 397.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Dorothy May Martin (formerly Colby), of 8, Coastguard Cottages, Battery Green, Lowestoft.
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Buried or commemorated at

LOWESTOFT (NORMANSTON DRIVE) CEMETERY
Suffolk United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 234
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