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J. Coombs

Countries: South Africa

War dead, Other war i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in a war, not WW1 or WW2.

J. Coombs

Gunner killed in the Second Anglo-Boer War.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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J. Coombs

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Woolwich Boer war memorial

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