Name
Ernest Charles Colman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/04/1916
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
89508
Canadian Field Artillery
6th Howitzer Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DICKEBUSCH NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
J. 26.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 7 Oct 1888 in Bath, Somerset son of Spencer Thomas and Clara Harriett (Greening) Colman later of Z Montpellier Villas, Torquay, Devon. Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1898-1904 he became a steam fitter and then emigrated to Canada as a farmer.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 3 May 1915 in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Died of wounds at No 6 Canadian Field Ambulance after being hit by a shell at St. Eloi.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
