Service Details
Name:
 COLBOURN
Given Name:
 CECIL ERNEST
Initials:
 C E
Service No:
 580435
Trade:
 Obs.
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force
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Unit:
 15 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1940-05-18
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Age:
 26
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Blenheim IV P6917, took off 1230 from Wyton to position to Abbeville for operation, shot down near Landrecies (Nord) France
Additional
Information:
Son of Charles Allan and Gertrude Wyatt Colbourn, of Wood Green, Middlesex; husband of Jean Melanie Colbourn, of Winchmore Hill, Middlesex. On Windhoek Leutwein Cross of Sacrifice Memorial, Namibia
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Nord
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Cemetery:
 LANDRECIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Row C. Grave 6.

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