Service Details
Name:
 COOMBS
Given Name:
 WILLIAM GEORGE
Initials:
 W G
Service No:
 207370
Rank:
 Pupil Pilot
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 22 Air School
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Former Regiment:
 formerly Palestine Police Force
Date of Death:
 1942-11-12
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Age:
 27
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Hawker Hart I #323, crashed
Additional
Information:
Son of Tom and Mary Jane Coombs, of Ashmore, Dorsetshire, England. Commemorated on parents' headstone in churchyard at St. Nicholas, Ashmore, Dorset. Commemorated on war memorial in Ashmore, Dorset. Commemorated on memorial panel in St. Giles the Abbot, Farnborough. Kent
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 VEREENIGING OLD TOWN CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Gen. Sec. Grave 1270.

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