Source: Operation Picture Me via The 18th Battalion Facebook Group. London Advertiser Circa 1916.
Family Search: When Richard Holcombe was born on 19 April 1891, in Plymtree, Devon, England, United Kingdom, his father, Robert Holcombe, was 26 and his mother, Louisa Leyman, was 25. He married Ada Lucy Dennett on 20 August 1919, in London Township, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Cullompton, Devon, England, United Kingdom in 1901 and London, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 25, his occupation is listed as burner in London, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1971, at the age of 80, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, London, Ontario, Canada.




