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Individual Record
Inscription
Also of Norman Debuffe Curtis
Beloved son of the above
Who was killed in action Oct 25 1918
Aged 24 years
Place of Inscription
Winchcombe Cemetery
Gloucestershire
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Norman Debuffe
Curtis
1893
Chepstow, Monmouthshire
25th October 1918
It seems likely that Norman died from wounds received in the Courtai now known as Kortrijk where he is buried. More specifically that Norman died alongside three other members of the 140th Field Ambulance RAMC who are buried along side him. One of them Private Albert Edward Waldon was reported locally that he was a stretcher bearer and that he had died from the effects of gas - given their date of death and grave site, it seems more than likely Norman also died from the effects of gas received in the line of their work as stretcher bearers.
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Kortrijk (St Jan) Communal Cemetery, Flanders, Belgium
First World War
Private
140th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
Norman served with the RAMC from 1915 who were attached to the 41st Division seeing action in France. Belgium/Italy
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Second World War
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Pumphrey
3 Flying Training School Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
