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Warrant Officer Class Ii JAMES COOMBES

Service Number: 3652572
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South Lancashire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 August 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. CHARLES DE PERCY WAR CEMETERY

I. C. 15.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Stanley and Florence Cuttiford Coombes; husband of Vera Joan Coombes, of Maxton, Dover.
  • Personal Inscription AS THE DEW CLINGS TO THE FLOWERS SO DO SWEET MEMORIES OF YOU CLING TO MY HEART
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. CHARLES DE PERCY WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 809
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