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Lieutenant JOHN EDWIN HENSHAW COOMBES

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Border Regiment

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 April 1918

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN

Officers, B. 6. 19.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the Rev. Herbert Edwin Henshaw Coombes, Rector of Freshwater, Isle of Wight, and the late Alice Tessie Coombes.
  • Personal Inscription HE THAT OVERCOMETH SHALL INHERIT ALL THINGS AND I WILL BE HIS GOD
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