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Corporal EDWARD CHARLES COOMBES

Service Number: 5494961
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Devonshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 July 1943

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

I. J. 22.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Charles and Louisa Kate Coombes; husband of Violet Annie Coombes, of Andover, Hampshire.
  • Personal Inscription DEARLY BELOVED ALWAYS REMEMBERED

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Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2142
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