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Corporal WILFRED COOMBES

Service Number: 5680395
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 January 1945

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

47. G. 17.

Germany

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Violet Coombes; husband of Phyllis Lillian Coombes, of Whitchurch, Somerset.
  • Personal Inscription GOD'S GREATEST GIFT, REMEMBRANCE
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Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 7671
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