COLEMAN, Ernest Leonard
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Rank:
Marine
Unit / Base:
40RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Service Number:
CH/X3341
P.O.W. number:
813
Born:
Friday, July 21, 1922
Ernest Leonard Coleman, a Butcher's Assistant from Lowestoft, enlisted 13 December 1939 volunteering in 1942 for the newly raised Royal Marine Commando. Marine Coleman was wounded and a prisoner of war 19 August 1942 during operations at Dieppe, France. Post war member of the Commando Association residing Eye, Suffolk.
Sources
RM Prisoners of War / National Archives file ADM201/111.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/68/2.
Sources
RM Prisoners of War / National Archives file ADM201/111.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/68/2.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 103 (1996).
Gallery image of 10 Platoon 'X' Coy., the RM Commando (later re-designated 40RM Commando).
Photo of Commando in Gallery:
Yes
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