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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 25 January
1919

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Headless Cross Sergeants Certificate – Sergeant J. Coombs, of the 4 Battalion
Worcestershire Regiment, son of Mr and Mrs Coombs of Evesham Road, Headless Cross, who
last year was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field, has now been awarded the
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certificat4e for gallantry and devotion to duty in the field on September 30 last, near
Gheluvelt. Sergeant Coombs, who is 26 years of age and unmarried, has been seven years in
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the army. Before the war he served in the 1 and 2 Battalions of the Worcesters, but upon
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the outbreak of war was transferred to the 4 Battalion. He served in the Gallipoli
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campaign, and later, with the famous 29 Division, was in all the three fighting at the
battles of the Somme, Arras, Ypres, and Cambrai. At Ypres he was wounded once and
gassed once. Prior to enlisting in the army Sergt. Coombs was employed at Messrs. S.
Allcock and Co., Ltd., Standard Works. Mr Coombs sen., has three other sons in the army,
one being in Mesopotamia and two in France, one of the latter being in the Air Service.

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