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Flight Sergeant William Freeborne Colville

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Military service

Service number: R/78383
Age: 25
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth: April 29, 1917 Bowmanville, Ontario
Enlistment: October 23, 1940 Ontario
Death: May 6, 1942 Torbay

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Plot 3. Row 3. Grave 15.
Additional 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.

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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