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Military service
Service number:
B/37700
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
August 11, 1922
Hamilton, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 4, 1940
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 1.
Additional information
Son of Edward and Margaret Coleman, of Fruitland, Ontario.
Brother of Private Edward Bruce Coleman, who was killed in action on August 19, 1942, while serving with the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry.
Digital gallery of Private Howard Albert Coleman
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Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation:Picture Me -
Brookwood Memorial
Photo taken by John S. Brehaut during the Road to Freedom Tour of 2003. -
Inscription on Brookwood Memorial
Private Howard Albert Coleman is one of seventeen members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator .c1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Howard Albert Coleman
Digital gallery of
Private Howard Albert Coleman
Digital gallery of
Private Howard Albert Coleman
Digital gallery of
Private Howard Albert Coleman
Digital gallery of
Private Howard Albert Coleman
Digital gallery of
Private Howard Albert Coleman
Digital gallery of
Private Howard Albert Coleman
Digital gallery of
Private Howard Albert Coleman
Digital gallery of
Private Howard Albert Coleman
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 65 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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