Identity
Person No.
4301
Service No.
14831
Last Name
First Name
William John
Initials
W J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
27
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,733
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, received during an air attack on the "A" Coy. positions, in the vicinity of Acroma, by 3 enemy aircraft at about 14:00
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Cape Town Highlanders 73
Later renamed
First City/Cape Town Highlanders
(1943)
Unit
Unknown
Secondary Unit
"A" Coy.
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Part of
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes
Son of John P. and Margaret M. Colman, of Belleville, Cape Town. Husband of Edna Maud Colman, of 109 Upper Queens Road, Walmer Estate, Cape Town. A Railway Labourer and had 1 child.
Research notes
Colyn Brookes, Mibisa: Volume One – Western Cape (Lulu, 2013, ISBN 9781447682523): Tobruk War Cemetery.
Citations
Unknown
External References
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MIBISA Volume One – Western Cape
open source ↗
Tobruk War Cemetery
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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