COLWILL, Horace Cecil
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Rank:
Company Sergeant Major
Unit / Base:
'42 Commando RM'
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Service Number:
PLY/X 819
Born:
Wednesday, February 19, 1913
Birthplace:
Stratton Bude, Cornwall
Died :
Sunday, June 20, 1948
Died in service
Age:
35
Cemetery/Memorial:
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.
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