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Serjeant JAMES ALBERT COBLEY

Service Number: O/2881
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Army Ordnance Corps

Date of Death

Died 24 March 1918

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

I. S. 3.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. Third Army H.Q.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Edith Cobley; husband of Lily Amelia, Cobley, of 194, Gerrard St., Lozells, Birmingham. Born at Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription TO HAVE, TO LOVE, THEN TO PART IS THE SADDEST THING OF A HUMAN HEART
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Buried or commemorated at

ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 888
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