COLEMAN, Harold James

Rank: 
Troop Sergeant Major
Unit / Base: 
1 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Welch Regiment
Service: 
Army
Number: 
3957677
Died : 
Tuesday, August 24, 1943
Died on war service
Age: 
29
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Troop Sergeant Major Harold Coleman died in Caernarvonshire and Anglesey Infirmary as a result of injuries received whilst rock climbing. Son of Mary Coleman; husband of G. V. Coleman, of Riverside, Cardiff. Regimental Sergeant Major John Cann [more....] and three Troop Sergeant Majors were amongst those in attendance at his funeral.
 
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/66.

No.1 Cdo War Diary Jan-Dec 1943 / National Archives files WO218/ 49.

Primary Roll of Honour: 
Photo of grave in Gallery: 
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