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Lance Bombardier GEORGE ALFRED COLWELL

Service Number: 1076019
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Horse Artillery

11 (Honourable Artillery Coy.) Regt.

Date of Death

Died 22 January 1942

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BENGHAZI WAR CEMETERY

8. A. 15.

Libya

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Sarah Eleanor Colwell, of Durham.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

BENGHAZI WAR CEMETERY
Libya
Number of casualties: 1240
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