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In memory of:

Private Harry Coombs

Military service

Service number: 393
Age: 21
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Division: 1ST Bn.
Birth: September 29, 1894 Upper Island Cove, Newfoundland & Labrador
Enlistment: September 5, 1914 St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death: July 1, 1916 Beaumont-Hamel, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Sp. Mem. 31 .
Additional information

Son of Harry and Mary Ann (Mercer Coombs) Sheppard, of Upper Island Cove, Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. Brother to Isadore, Mary, Laura, Jessie, Sarah and Flora.

Memorials

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In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 30 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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Service record(s)

Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.

ANCRE BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France

ANCRE BRITISH CEMETERY is in the Department of the Somme, about 2 kilometres south of the village of Beaumont-Hamel.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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