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Sapper SAMUEL JOHN COOMBES

Service Number: 13048239
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 30 December 1941

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY

1. D. 10.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest Edward Wyndham Coombes and Ada Coombes, of Worthing, Sussex.
  • Personal Inscription JESUS SAID, I AM THE RESURRECTION, AND THE LIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 1830
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