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Hi All,
Richard Luscombe was buried on 23 April 1951 in Torquay Cemetery. Aged 98.
Not 100% but possibly served in the ASC during WW1 from 1916 at Rouen but was invalided home on 8 May 1917 with a badly sprained ankle.
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