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Fusilier GEORGE COLTON

Service Number: 4200070
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Welch Fusiliers

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 05 August 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY

I. E. 7.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Walter John and Carrie Colton; husband of Lilian Colton, of Tonbridge, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription "REST ETERNAL GRANT THEM, AFTER WEARY FIGHT"
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Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 377
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