Service Details
Name:
 COLEBY
Given Name:
 DONALD NORMAN
Initials:
 D N
Service No:
 71322556BT
Rank:
 Staff Sergeant
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry Corps
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Unit:
 Regiment Groot Karoo
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Date of Death:
 1983-06-12
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Date of Birth:
 1955-08-29
Age:
 27
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in a contact with the enemy. While on patrol near Vinticette, he was hit by machine gun fire during an ambush.
Additional
Information:
Husband of Mrs. E. D. Coleby, of Sydney-on-Vaal
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Kwazulu Natal
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Cemetery:
 PIETERMARITZBURG (MOUNTAIN RISE) CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Ashes at the foot of his fathers grave

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