Three: Acting Corporal R. Coumbe, 3rd Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles

1914-15 Star (108168 Pte., 3/Can. Mtd. Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (108168 A. Cpl., 3-C.M.R.) nearly extremely fine (3) £100-140

Rundle Coumbe was born in Cornwall, England on 29 April 1892. A Farmer by employment, he attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Edmonton on 8 February 1914. With the 3rd C.M.R. he landed in France on 22 September 1915. He was killed in action on 1 December 1915, aged 22 years. He was buried in the Berks Cemetery Extension, Hainaut, Belgium. He was the son of James Henry and Elizabeth Ann Coumbe, of Cathamartha Lezant, Callington, Cornwall. Sold with copied service papers.