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Private WILLIAM HENRY COOMBS

Service Number: 140530
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 March 1918

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PARGNY BRITISH CEMETERY

I. B. 7.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Jane Coombs, of Great Durnford, Salisbury; husband of Alice Louisa Coombs, of Wilsford Lake, Salisbury.
  • Personal Inscription NOT FORGOTTEN
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Buried or commemorated at

PARGNY BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 635
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