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Private CHARLES PALMER CROMBIE

Service Number: 5572
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

1st/7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 October 1916

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

AUCHONVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY

II. E. 49.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Youngest son of Francis and Margaret Crombie, of Leith, Edinburgh.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

AUCHONVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 528
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