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Lance Corporal WALTER JAMES COOMBES

Service Number: 556040
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

518th Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 23 March 1918

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ASSEVILLERS NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

IX. D. 5.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly (Bglr.) Kent Cyclist Battalion
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Alice Coombes, of The Plain, Folkestone; husband of Kitty Coombes, of 23, Felday Rd., Lewisham, London. Also served in Royal Army Medical Corps (Cpl.) Educated at Duke of York's Royal Mil. School.
  • Personal Inscription WE MISS YOU MOST WHO LOVED YOU BEST FROM HIS LOVING MUM AND DAD
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