Gunner killed in the Second Anglo-Boer War.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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
{On the front face of the plinth:} To the glory of God Erected by the officer...
Born Dartington, Devon. Engineer. Worked with railways and ships. Died on holiday in Simonstown, South Africa, where he is buried.
Served in India and South Africa. He named Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape after his wife, who had died in India, and built a pyramid-shaped memorial to her there. He returned to England and mar...
Founded by Charles Evenden as a brotherhood of South African front-line ex-soldiers. The club-houses are known as shell-holes.
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900. Died of fever at Pretoria.