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Inspector David James McCombe

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Service number: O.385
Age: 50
Rank: Inspector
Force: RCMP
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Division: F Regina, Wolesley & Melville. L Charlottetown, PE
Birth: Belfast
Enlistment: May 23, 1927
Death: December 12, 1955 Cutknife, Saskatchewan
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Insp. McCombe was originally from Belfast and worked for the Royal Irish Constabulary. He came to Canada in 1925. Most of Insp. McCombe’s service was in Saskatchewan however he did have a posting in Charlottetown as well as Ottawa. Insp. McCombe received his commission in 1950. He died from exposure while on patrol near Cutknife, Saskatchewan. He had a wife, Annie and three sons. One of his sons, H. Barry McCombe joined the Force and retired as a staff sergeant in 1994. Insp. McCombe is buried in the Cemetery at Depot.

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Page 90 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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