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Walter James Coombes

Lance Corporal

Service No. 556040

Age 23

Died on 23 March 1918

Royal Engineers

ASSEVILLERS NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

Somme, France

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.

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Thank you to all who lost their lives to save our countries. You will always be remembered.

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To a soldier of the great war. I do not know you but I would have liked to have known you.  You were a brother in arms with my paternal gra...

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