Private Roland Combes

Army Number : 306150

Battalion : 2/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

He was born and lived at Newark, Nottinghamshire. Son of George and Caroline Combes, of 1, Charles Street, Newark, Nottinghamshire. He enlisted at Newark and was killed in action, 7th April 1917, aged 18, during the attack at Le Verguier, northwest of Saint Quentin, France.

Buried : Vadencourt British Cemetery, Maissemy, France. Plot 2. Row C. Grave 48.

Private Roland Combes is also commemorated on the following local war memorials :
St. Mary’s Church Borough of Newark Roll of Honour, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary’s Church Parishioners War Memorial, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
St. Augustine’s Church War Memorial, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Newark Cemetery War Memorial, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.