Service Details
Name:
 RICE
Given Name:
 WALTER EDGAR
Initials:
 W E
Service No:
 916
Rank:
 Corporal
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 4th Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "D" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1916-07-07
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Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, held the line Briqueterie Trench-Dublin Trench to Dublin Redoubt
Additional
Information:
Son of John Henry Rice and Emma Elizabeth (formerly Rice) Coombe. Step brother of Thomas Coombe, of Sea Point, Cape Town. Born Cardiff, Wales. His half brother Augustus Victor Coombe also died in service
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 PERONNE ROAD CEMETERY, MARICOURT
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Grave Reference:
 I. G. 5.

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