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Military service
Age:
33
Rank:
Able Seaman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Chr. J. Kampmann (Montréal, Québec) (173233)
Birth:
February 23, 1909
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
November 3, 1942
Caribbean Sea
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 21.
Additional information
His full name is John William Coombs.
Son of George William Coombs and Mabel Louise McLachlan, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Brother of George Coombs, of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Sailing with convoy TAG-18, she was torpedoed on 3 November 1942 at 2:02 am by U-160 northwest of Grenada in the Caribbean Sea, position 12°06'N/62°42'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 116 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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