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Sapper WILLIAM GEORGE TOOMBS

Service Number: 2895
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Tunnelling Corps

3rd Coy.

Date of Death

Died 12 February 1917

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XXI. E. 4A.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of George and Katherine Toombs, of Cornwall Coal Mines, nr. St. Mary's, Tasmania.
  • Personal Inscription A PAINFUL SHOCK A BLOW SEVERE TO PART WITH ONE WE LOVED SO DEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 11554
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