Service Details
Name:
 COLSON
Given Name:
 EDWARD WILLIAM
Initials:
 E W
Service No:
 125623V
Rank:
 Private
Other Casualties of this Rank
Regiment:
 First City/Cape Town Highlanders, S.A. Forces
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Former Regiment:
 formerly 55 "Q" Coy, Q Service Corps, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
 1945-02-05
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Date of Birth:
 1920-12-03
Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in an early morning raid on a machine gun nest known a "LULU", in the Grizzana area
Additional
Information:
Son of Mary Ann Isabella Gibbons, of Claremont, Cape Town.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
Other Casualties commemorated in Italy
Cemetery:
 CASTIGLIONE SOUTH AFRICAN CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 VI, C, 2.

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