Fayid War Cemetery Egypt
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Company Sergeant Major
PLY/X 819
42 Cdo. RM
Royal Marines
Died in service
Company Sergeant Major Horace Colwill died of a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head at Shandur Camp, Fayid, Egypt.
Sources
AFM ROH.
Registers Of Reports Of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM104/129.
DUFFY, Joseph Aloysius
Private
3318385
No 11 Commando
SAS
Seaforth Highlanders
Died on war service
Private Joseph Duffy joined L Detachment, SAS, from No 11 Commando on the 28th August 1941 and was accidentally killed in training due to a parachute failure, along with his friend and fellow Seaforth Highlander, Private Kenneth Warburton. Location given as East side of the Great Bitter Lake.
HOWARD, Percy Robert
Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant
CH/X 984
45 Cdo. RM
Royal Marines
Died in service
Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Percy Howard died in service at Aqaba, Egypt. Buried at Fayid War Cemetery, Egypt, Section 13, Row B, Grave No.9. Husband of Margaret Geraldine Howard of Deal. Awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal at the end of January 1949.
LEEVES, Luther John
Marine
PO/X 5902
42 Cdo. RM
Royal Marines
Died in service unknown cause
Marine Luther Leeves died in Egypt.
MORRIS, Henry Arthur
Corporal
RM 8206
42 Cdo. RM
Royal Marines
Died in service
Corporal Henry Morris died from illness in Egypt.
Extract from the Dundee Courier - Monday 25 January 1954
ROSENSTEIN, Natan
Lance Corporal
PAL/12479
51ME Commando
Pioneer Corps
Died on war service
Lance Corporal Natan Rosenstein, an Austrian of Jewish Faith, served in the Commando from November 1941 and died of illness in July 1942. Son of Moriz and Paula Rosenstein, of Paddington, London.
Sources
CWGC.
WARBURTON, Kenneth
Private
2821591
No 11 Commando
SAS
Seaforth Highlanders
Died on war service
Private Kenneth Warburton died in training as a result of parachute failure whilst attached to 'L' Detachment SAS. He had previously served in 11 Commando 6 troop.
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