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Signalman GILBERT WILLIAM BALCOMBE

Service Number: 2344575
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

Tenth Army Sigs.

Date of Death

Died 14 January 1943

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY

22. L. 11.

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Sidney and Beatrice Balcombe, husband of Doris Amy Balcombe, of Caversham, Reading, Berkshire.
  • Personal Inscription SADLY MISSED, SO DEARLY LOVED. FAITHFUL TO THE END
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