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C Colgrave

Corporal

Service No. 16818

Age 24

Died on 29 September 1916

East Yorkshire Regiment

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

Pas de Calais, France

Son of Thomas and Mary Ann Colgrave; husband of Mary Colgrave, of Sandwath Cottage, Town End, Eyam, Sheffield.

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Nicola Lawson

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

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Mal Beckly

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

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Colin was born in 1892 in Ecclesall Bierlow. He died on the 29 September 1916 at the Canadian hospital in Boulogne from injuries sustained o...

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My grandfather, Colin Colgrave, was injured by rifle fire at the battle at Mouquet Farm. He suffered a septic compound fracture of his righ...

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