• Operation Market Garden

Date of birth:

September 29th, 1924 (City of York, United Kingdom)

Date of death:

September 24th, 1944 (Oosterbeek/Gelderland, The Netherlands)

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Cemetery Arnhem Oosterbeek
Plot: 26. Row: B. Grave: 3.

Service number:

J/93540

Nationality:

Canadian

Henry was born on September 29 1924 in York England, the son of Leslie Ewart Colman and Louie Elizabeth Colman nee Everist (both English) of Clifton, York England. His sisters were Margaret Ann Colman (Toronto) and Mary Dalziel Colman (Mrs. Chas H. Edwardson) of London England. Henry went in August 1940 as a British quest child to Canada.

He was a coin box collector with the Bell Telephone Co in Toronto and member of the Church of England. His hobby was building aeroplane models and his sports were football, hockey, swimming, cricket, skiing, rugby and soccer.

He served as a private in 1942 with the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada in Toronto. He enlisted on September 29 1942 in Toronto then the RCAF and he went thereafter on April 18 1944 overseas to the UK.

Henry was killed in action on Sunday September 24 1944 age 19 just a week for his 20th birthday due to a crash at the Rosandepolder Oosterbeek west of the railway bridge during operation Market Garden. He was temporarily buried then near the municipality hospital in Arnhem before being reburied on August 24 1945 in Oosterbeek. His other fallen RCAF crew member was P/O. James L. Springsteele age 24 in grave 4-B-3. The other fallen and missed soldiers and therefore at the Groesbeek Memorial were The (British) RASC crew members Dvr. William T. Crossley age 41 on panel 9 and L/Cpl Francis W.R. Simpson age 34 on panel 9. The other fallen RAF Volunteer Reserve crew member P/O Walton R. Pring age 26 was missed then too and he is therefore at the Runnymede Memorial in England on panel 212. The other RAF crew member F/Sgt Derek Gleave survived the crash and he became then a prisoner of war as well as the other RASC crew members Dvr. B.H. Hastings and Dvr. S. Dunford. F/Sgt Gleave survived later the war.

On his headstone: THERE'S SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND
He served with the 48 (R.A.F.) Sqdn Royal Canadian Air Force.

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• Photo 1: Operation Picture Me (Public Domain)
• Photo 2: Edwin v.d. Wolf
• - Pilot Officer Henry Everest Colman | War Casualty Details 2644480 | CWGC
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