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Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC Headstones -
- Ryde St John's Cemetery : Violet Georgina Coombes -

Location

In St John's Cemetery, Ryde, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Private headstone. Cross has been removed from base.

Grave location U 17.
Headstone

Ryde St John's Violet Georgina Coombes
 
Inscription


IN MEMORY OF
VIOLET GEORGINA
ONLY AND MUCH LOVED CHILD OF
ALFRED AND JANE COOMBES
WHO FELL ASLEEP JANUARY 23RD 1918
AGED 23 YEARS
"NOT LOST BUT GONE BEFORE"
+
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
ALFRED H COOMBES
WHO PEACEFULLY PASSED AWAY
JUNE 5TH 1936
AGED 71 YEARS
"AT HOME"


 
Further Information

Violet Georgina Coombes
 
Daughter of Alfred Henry Coombes and Jane Coombes (née Renyard)
 
Born 1894, Brading, Isle of Wight.
 
Census Information :
 
1901 : Alfred and Jane Coombes, with Violet aged 6, are at 7 Victoria Crescent, High Park, Ryde. Alfred Coombes is an Insurance Agent.
 
1911 : Alfred and Jane Coombes, with Violet aged 16, are at 7 Victoria Crescent, High Park, Ryde. Alfred Coombes is an Insurance Agent; Violet Coombes is an Assistant at a Sub Post Office.
 
Service Information :
 
Violet Coombes was a Worker (Corps no 3981) with Queen Mary's Auxiliary Army Corps at a Hostel in London. Her cause of death is unknown.


National Probate Calendar 1918

CWGC record ...
 
RSHG record ...
 
Her death plaque is displayed at St John's Church, Ryde.
 
Commemorated at these Memorials :
 
Carisbrooke Castle County War Memorial Panel 02
Ryde Borough War Memorial WW I
Ryde St John's Church War Memorial



 
 

 
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