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• Edwin Lee Witcombe

confirmed

Service number

• Service number 845

Rank

• Held rank of Private

Birth record

• 1883 in Waterloo, NSW, Australia

Death record

• 24 November 1960 in Earlwood, NSW, Australia

Address

• Briston, 14 Cabramatta Road, Mosman, NSW, Australia

Relationships

• Father - Robert James Burton Witcombe
• Mother - Sarah Elizabeth Nurse Jarvis
• Wife - Marion Gertrude Drew
• Sibling - Stanley Witcombe †
• Brother - Stirgess Jarvis Witcombe

Organisation

• Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force

Main sources

• WITCOMBE Edwin Lee : Service Number - 845 : Place of Birth - Sydney NSW : Place of Enlistment - Liverpool NSW : Next of Kin - (Wife) WITCOMBE Marion Gertrude (NAA file)
• Death Notice [Stanley Witcombe] (newspaper article)
• WEDDINGS (newspaper article)

Commemorations

• WITCOMBE E. L. on the North Face of the Mosman War Memorial
• Witcombe, E. on the Mosman Public School Roll of Honour
• Witcombe, E.L. on the Scots Kirk Presbyterian Church Mosman Roll of Honour
• Witcombe, E.L. on the Mosman-Neutral Bay Rifle Club Roll of Honour