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Military service
Service number:
53364
Age:
35
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
18th Bn.
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Robert and Jane McCombe, of Tullyvernon, Clogher, Co. Tyrone, Ireland.
Digital gallery of Corporal John Robert McCombe
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of JOHN ROBERT MCCOMBE
L Cpl R J McCombe 18th Battalion as pictured in the December 1918 edition of The Christmas Echo published in London Ontario - And in the Morning -
Newspaper Clipping
Source: Operation Picture Me via The 18th Battalion Facebook Group. London Free Press October 28, 1916. Contributed by E.Edwards www.18thbattalioncef.wordpress.com -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Corporal John Robert McCombe
Digital gallery of
Corporal John Robert McCombe
Digital gallery of
Corporal John Robert McCombe
Digital gallery of
Corporal John Robert McCombe
Digital gallery of
Corporal John Robert McCombe
Digital gallery of
Corporal John Robert McCombe
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 123 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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