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Military service
Service number:
F/86669
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
West Nova Scotia Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
May 21, 1919
Colpton, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
July 24, 1941
Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
Death:
November 18, 1943
San Pietro, Italy
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. H. 11.
Additional information
Son of Charles Andrew and Gladys Viola Colp, of Colpton, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. Brother of Harris, William, Simeon, Ernest, Norman, Walter, Frances, Beatrice, Bessie, Gertrude, Jean, Bertha and Lillian.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45.
Digital gallery of Private Joseph William Colp
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Grave in Italy
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Letter from Joseph William Colp
Joseph William Colp's last letter home. This letter was written to my father, Harris Colp, serving in the Army in Debert, N.S., at that time. -
Cemetery in Italy
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Private Joseph William Colp
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph William Colp
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 147 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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