Service Details
Name:
 RUSSELL
Given Name:
 IAN RAMSAY
Initials:
 I R
Service No:
 217
Rank:
 Sergeant
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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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Date of Death:
 1916-10-16
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Age:
 34
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in front the Butte de Warlencourt
Additional
Information:
Son of John Ramsay Russell and Lene Auld Russell, of 6, Warrender Park Terrace, Edinburgh, Scotland. Native of Wick, Scotland. Born in 1882, and entered George Watson's College in 1897. On leaving he joined the staff of the Scottish Provident Institution, and shortly afterwards went to Rhodesia. He had been a keen Volunteer, and was Sgt. in one of the Midlothian Artillery Mounted Batteries. He joined the 1st South African Contingent in 1915, and came unscathed through the heavy fighting at Delville Wood.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 WARLENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 VIII. E. 28.

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