72223 Philip Anthony WELLESLEY-COLLEY, Royal Artillery & 4 Commando: 06/06/1944

Personal Number: 72223
Rank: Lieutenant
Name: Philip Anthony WELLESLEY-COLLEY
Unit: Royal Artillery & 4 Commando


London Gazette : 22 June 1937
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34410/page/4016/data.pdf
TERRITORIAL ARMY
107th (S. Nottingham H. Yeo.) Fd. Bde.—
Philip Anthony WELLESLEY COLLEY (late Cadet Corpl., Downside Coll. Contgt., Jun. Div., O.T.C.) to be 2nd Lt. 9th June 1937.

 

Casualty Details | CWGC
LIEUTENANT PHILLIP ANTHONY WELLESLEY COLLEY
Service Number: 72223
Regiment & Unit: Royal Artillery and No. 4 Commando
Date of Death: Died 06 June 1944
Age 25 years old
Buried or commemorated at BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Grave Reference: X. H. 26.
Location: France
Additional Info: Son of William Joseph and Florence Mary Wellesley Colley; husband of Dora Valerie Patricia Wellesley Colley, of Woking, Surrey.
Personal Inscription: ON WHOSE SOUL, SWEET JESUS, HAVE MERCY

 

See also:

• Person Page
• Lieutenant Phillip Anthony Wellesley-Colley
• https://twitter.com/jwbidwell/status/1148367687552139264 - "I remember him as a very decent man.” D-Day veteran Roy Maxwell, No 4 Commando makes an emotional visit to the grave of his friend Lieutenant Phillip Wellesley Colley"
• 107th (South Nottinghamshire Hussars) Regiment, R.H.A. (T.A.) Officers September 1939

His brother-in-law:

• 262098 Hon. Victor Stratford de Redcliffe CANNING, MiD, 5 Grenadier Guards: 06/05/1944