Service Details
Name:
KING
Given Name:
FRANCIS
Initials:
F
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
South African Infantry
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Unit:
1st Regt.
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Date of Death:
1917-04-12
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Age:
22
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, in the improvised and disastrous attack of the 9th (Scottish) Division on the German positions in the East of Fampoux. The 1st SAI lost 2 officers and 203 men.
Decorations:
Mentioned in Despatches
Citations:
LG Sup 28 December 1917 pg. 13576
Additional
Information:
Only son of James Francis King, of Bedford, England, and Alexandrina Louisa King, of Rondbosch, Cape Province. On Rondebosch War Memorial in St. Paul's Anglican Churchyard
Commemoration
Country:
France
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Locality:
Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
ARRAS MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
Bay 10.

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