PDF
« Previous

Colson , Edward William (E W)

Next »
No photograph available — remembrance poppy
Identity
Person No.
4307
Service No.
125623V
Last Name
Colson 1
First Name
Edward William
Initials
E W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1921 (±1 yr) 698
Age at Death
24
Death Record
Date of Death
05 February 1945 140
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Killed in action, in an early morning raid on a machine gun nest known a "LULU", in the Grizzana area
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
First City/Cape Town Highlanders 112
Formerly Cape Town Highlanders (1943)
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,343
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Italy 1,880
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
CASTIGLIONE SOUTH AFRICAN CEMETERY 401
Grave Reference
VI, C, 2. 1
Coordinates
44.14397, 11.16183 OSM
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes

Son of Mary Ann Isabella Gibbons, of Claremont, Cape Town.

Citations
Unknown
External References
Stories

No stories have been added yet.

Dedications

No dedications have been added yet.