Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Arthur Newcombe
In memory of:
Private Arthur Newcombe
November 8, 1919
Military Service
529629
32
Army
Canadian Army Medical Corps
10th Field Amb.
Additional Information
September 2, 1887
Son of Polly Newcombe, of London, England, and Alexander Newcombe; husband of Charlotte Newcombe, of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Commemorated on Page 540 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY
Manitoba, Canada
Mil. 229.
The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Gravemarker – Photo courtesy of N. Bruce Cameron, Winnipeg, October, 2004. -
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