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Gunner GEORGE ALFRED COLBURN

Service Number: 705434
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

"A" Bty. 210th Bde.

Date of Death

Died 12 September 1917

Buried or commemorated at

YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY

I. A. 28.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Sophia Colburn, of Manchester; husband of Nancy Colbum, of 29, Ilsley Rd., Erdington, Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription IN EVER LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND LOVE'S SUPREME SACRIFICE
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Buried or commemorated at

YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 2614
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