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Private JOSEPH COOMBES

Service Number: 8986
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 December 1914

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ENGHIEN (EDINGEN) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

On Nth side of path, due East of the Chapel.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Jack and Emma Coombes, of Nottingham; husband of Alice Mary Neal (formerly Coombes), of 35, Park St., New Lenton, Nottingham.
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