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Captain JOHN WOODROW COLBURN

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Canadian Army Service Corps

Date of Death

Died 05 May 1945

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

XII. G. 2.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Edward and Lillian Colburn; husband of Nancy Isabel Colburn, of London, Ontario. B.A., Hons. (University of Northern Ontario).
  • Personal Inscription EARTH HAS NO SORROW THAT LOVE CANNOT HEAL
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Buried or commemorated at

HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Overijssel Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1394
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