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Sergeant EDWARD SOMBERT

Service Number: H/100005
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Provost Corps

8 Provost Coy.

Date of Death

Died 05 August 1945

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

V. A. 14.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Frank and Emma Sombert, of Winnipeg, Manitoba; husband of Ivy Janet Sombert, of Winnipeg.
  • Personal Inscription MIZPAH THE LORD WATCH BETWEEN ME AND THEE WHEN WE ARE ABSENT ONE FROM ANOTHER
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Buried or commemorated at

HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Overijssel Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1394
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