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St. Johns Cemetery

Miss Violet Georgina Coombes (Queen Mary’s Auxiliary Army Corps)

Title: Miss
Forenames: Violet Georgina
Surnames: Coombes
Date of Death: 23/01/1918
Age at Death Years: 23
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG SJ003
Plot Number: St John's Cemetery Plot 3 Row 10 Graves 1- 2
Grave Description: Double plot. Cross surmounted on two tiers.

Grave Condition Description: Cross missing

Other Information: Violet Coombes was a worker with Queen Mary's Auxiliary Army Corps at a Hostel in London. There is also a memorial plaque to Violet Coombes in St John's Church, Ryde.

Old Website Grave ID: 14547

Inscription:

Top tier
IN
MEMORY OF
VIOLET GEORGINA

2nd Tier
ONLY AND MUCH LOVED CHILD OF
ALFRED AND JANE COOMBES
WHO FELL ASLEEP JANUARY 23RD 1918
AGED 23 YEARS
"NOT LOST BUT GONE BEFORE"

Top tier
IN
LOVING
MEMORY OF

2nd Tier
ALFRED H COOMBES
WHO PEACEFULLY PASSED AWAY
JUNE 5TH 1936
AGED 71 YEARS
"AT HOME"

St John's Church memorial plaque
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
VIOLET GEORGINA
COOMBES

Photographs:

David Marshall
V & A Coombes
Photographer: David Marshall
David Earle
V Coombes memorial St John's Church, Ryde
Photographer: David Earle

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