Service Details
Name:
 BERLIN
Given Name:
 GEORGE
Initials:
 G
Service No:
 1362
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 3rd Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "A" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1916-07-06
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Age:
 19
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds. On 5 July the 3rd SAI were in support of the front in the old British and German front-line trenches immediately to the north-west of Maricourt. The next day there was great shelling and the South African regiments suffered some twenty casualties.
Additional
Information:
Son of Carl Wilhelm and Johanna Berlin. Brother of Arthur Berlin, of 7, Barkly Street, Malvern, Johannesburg. Born Johannesburg. A miner.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 PERONNE ROAD CEMETERY, MARICOURT
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Grave Reference:
 I. A. 17.

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