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| COLIN PRIESTMAN 1893 - 1918 |
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Colin was born in 1893 of a Quaker family living in Edgbaston, West Birmingham. He had been learning the trade at a family business of worsted spinners in Bradford. In January 1915 he followed his elder brother Basil in volunteering for the Friends’ Ambulance Unit, which Basil had joined in November 1914. Colin worked as an orderly, or nurse/paramedic, on an ambulance train carrying wounded French soldiers to hospitals behind the lines. He died on 9 August1918. He is buried in Jonchery-sur-Vesle British Cemetery, Marne, France. His brother Basil Priestman, born 1888, in ordinary life an actuary in an assurance company, continued to work in France until February 1919
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