Service Details
Name:
 UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Given Name:
 UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Date of Death:
 1916-07-11
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Date of Death 2:
 1916-07-16
Cause of Death:
 Died on active service
Additional
Information:
Found at Map Reference 57c.S.12.c.70.75. or GPS 50.0315, 2.8117. This is the northern edge of Delville Wood. One can assume he died during the fighting of July 1916. His means of identification were: South African buttons, breeches buttons by Baverstock & Son, Aldershot, Epaulette with 3 stars, denture, piece of Officer's ankle boot size 9, cigarette case from great coat pocket engraved "P.J.J.". Exhumed 25 July 1935. Height approx. 5 foot 9 inches.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 LONDON CEMETERY AND EXTENSION, LONGUEVAL
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Grave Reference:
 IV. F. 22.

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