Service Details
Name:
 RINTOUL
Given Name:
 ROBERT
Initials:
 R
Service No:
 9161
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 4th Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "C" Coy.
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Former Regiment:
 formerly Krugersdorp Commando
Date of Death:
 1917-04-09
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Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Battle of Arras
Additional
Information:
Brother of Jennie Auslan, of 21 Braxfield Road, Marchmount, Lanark, Scotland. A Delville Wood and Longueval survivor. Born in 1888 in Melbourne, Australia, and attested for service at Potchefstroom near Johannesburg, on the 21st of January, 1916, at the age of 28. Previously worked as a fitter. Service file indicates once deprived 5 days pay "for being unshaven past 9.00am" and had later been caught "drunk".
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ
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Grave Reference:
 XV. N. 5.

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