DEATH FROM WOUNDS
9 CAPTAIN OF BARTOLOMEO COLLEONI BURIAL AT ALEXANDRIA. WITH FULL NAVAL HONOURS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.17 a.m.) RUGBY. July 24. According to a message from Alexandria, the captain of the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni, who was wounded when his ship was sunk by the Australian cruiser Sydney, died aboard a British hospital ship at Alexandria and was buried in the British military cemetery this afternoon, with full honours. Those present at the funeral included several British naval officers and two hundred ratings.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1940, Page 7
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88DEATH FROM WOUNDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1940, Page 7
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