In Memory Of
COLEMAN, LESLIE CHARLES MARTIN
Service Details
Age:
27
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
1505
Rank:
Sergeant
Regiment:
Umvoti Mounted Rifles, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
1943-12-08
Cause of Death:
Died whilst a POW, whilst being loaded onto railway wagons to be transported to Germany, the rail yards at Aquila were bombed by USAF B-25 bombers. About 200 POWs were killed, all who were trapped in locked cattle cars
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
III. G. 19.
Cemetery:
ANCONA WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Italy
Additional Information
Son of Edward John and Mary Caroline Coleman, of Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa.
