COFFIN, Roland
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Hampshire Regiment
Service:
Army
Number:
5510151
Died :
Thursday, June 8, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
21
Cemetery/Memorial:
Operations:
Private Roland Coffin died of wounds during operations at Normandy, France, in the Chateau d'Amfreville area. Son of Harold and Edith Coffin, of Yenston, Somerset.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/77.
Commando, Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in WW2, author Brig Durnford-Slater.
Western Gazette (Yeovil) 6 June 1947, p8, In Memoriam.
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