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Private JAMES FREDERICK COOMBES

Service Number: 7638040
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Date of Death

Died 28 February 1942

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

1. C. 4.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Alice B. Coombes, of Peverell, Plymouth.
  • Personal Inscription TO MEMORY DEAR. LOVING SON AND BROTHER, ONE OF THE BEST FAR FROM HOME. MUM AND DAD
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Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 3066
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