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Captain

Emil Kolmel

Service number Unknown
Military unit Kampfgeschwader 53 Luftwaffe
Address Buhl, Germany.
Date of birth 04 May 1912
Date of death 08 May 1941 (29 years old)
Place of birth Waldangelloch, Baden, Germany.
Employment, education or hobbies Unknown
Family history

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Military history

Stab/K.G.53 (He111) A1+BA, after his aircraft was shot down by a Defiant of 255 Sqn piloted by Sgt Stanley J.Johnson, Gnr Sgt Aitchison and crashed at Scrooby, Nottinghamshire. Hptm Emil Kölmel, Obs KIA, parachute failed to open; Gefr Erhardt Schönberger, R/O (POW); Fw Hans Müller, Flt Engr (POW); Fw Günther Merten, (POW) and Gefr Oskar Wilfingseder, Gnr (POW).

Originally buried in Section A Grave A1 at Gringley on the Hill Cemetery, Bassetlaw
District, Nottinghamshire, England.

Reburied Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery
Plot 3 Row 6 Grave 180

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