Military service
Burial/memorial information
Son of Alexander and Annie Josephine Colville (1966 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother), of Bowmanville, Ontario.
Brother of Flying Officer John Spencer Colville and Flying Officer Alexander Colborne Colville, both died while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant William Freeborne Colville
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Photo of WILLIAM FREEBORNE COLVILLE
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Photo of WILLIAM FREEBORNE COLVILLE
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From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Bowmanville Canadian Statesman November, 1st 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Freeborne Colville
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Freeborne Colville
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 65 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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GANDER CEMETERY Newfoundland, Canada
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