Colin GUNN

GUNN, Colin

Service Numbers: WX9574, WX9574
Enlisted: 4 December 1940
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
Born: STOMOWAY, SCOTLAND, 15 June 1905
Home Town: Not yet discovered
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Killed in Action, Egypt, 23 October 1942, aged 37 years
Cemetery: El Alamein War Cemetery
Grave XVI. D. 2. INSCRIPTION UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY , El Alamein War Cemetery, El Alamein, Marsa Matruh, Egypt
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Private, WX9574
4 Dec 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX9574, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
Date unknown: Involvement Private, WX9574, A.I.F. 2/43 Bn. Australian Infantry

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

He was 43 and the son of Murdo and Annie Gunn, of Port of Ness, Stornoway, Scotland. Stornoway (Scottish Gaelic: Steòrnabhagh) is the main town of the Western Isles and the capital of Lewis and Harris in Scotland.

He is remembered on the Ness District War Memorial. Ness is the northernmost part of the Isle of Lewis, a community consisting of about 16 villages, including Lionel, Habost, Swainbost, Cross, North and South Dell, Cross Skigersta, Skigersta, Eorodale, Adabroc, Port of Ness, Knockaird, Fivepenny and Eoropie. 

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