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Serjeant EDWARD JOHN HAMILTON COBBETT

Service Number: S/97765
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Service Corps

Date of Death

Died 09 March 1941

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NAIROBI WAR CEMETERY

2. H. 56.

Kenya

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. L.A.A. Bde. Coy East African Service Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Lake Cobbett and Edith Slade Cobbett, of Gidea Park, Romford, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription THE BEST ARE THE FIRST TO GO

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Buried or commemorated at

NAIROBI WAR CEMETERY
Kenya
Number of casualties: 2032
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