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Son of Richard R. and Emily A. Melcombe, of 5264 Earls Rd., South Vancouver.
Digital gallery of Sapper Cecil Horace Melcombe
Digital gallery of
Sapper Cecil Horace Melcombe
Grave of 102902 Sapper Cecil Horace Melcombe who served with the Canadian Engneers C.E.F. Born in South Vancouver BC on April 30th 1897 to Emily & Richard Melcombe. Cecil enlisted into the C.E.F. at Vancouver BC on April 29th 1915 listing his occupation as "Labourer" Cecil died at Vancouver BC during the Spanish flu panademic at the age of 22. He was laid to rest in the Mountain View cemetery of Vancouver BC.
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Memorial Cross in the section where 102902 Sapper Cecil Horace Melcombe was laid to rest in the Mountain View cemetery of Vancouver BC.
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Cemetery view of the section where 102902 Sapper Cecil Horace Melcombe was laid to rest in the Mountain View cemetery of Vancouver BC.
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Grave of 102902 Sapper Cecil Horace Melcombe who served with the Canadian Engneers C.E.F. Born in South Vancouver BC on April 30th 1897 to Emily & Richard Melcombe. Cecil enlisted into the C.E.F. at Vancouver BC on April 29th 1915 listing his occupation as "Labourer" Cecil died at Vancouver BC during the Spanish flu panademic at the age of 22. He was laid to rest in the Mountain View cemetery of Vancouver BC.
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Commemorated on:
Page 539 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VANCOUVER (MOUNTAIN VIEW) CEMETERY British Columbia, Canada
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