COLWILL, Horace Cecil

Rank: 
Company Sergeant Major
Unit / Base: 
'42 Commando RM'
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Marines
Service: 
Royal Navy
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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