Service Details
Name:
 VAN HEERDEN
Given Name:
 ISAAC JACOBUS
Initials:
 I J
Service No:
 9558
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 2nd Regt.
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Date of Death:
 1917-04-12
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Age:
 20
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 2nd SAI, who went in 400 strong, lost 16 officers and 285 men.
Additional
Information:
Son of Isaac Jacobus and Anna Cecilia van Heerden, of P.O. Lady Grey, Aliwal North, Cape Province. Brother of Mr. W. van Heerden, of Cedarville, Griqualand East, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
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Grave Reference:
 I. B. 22.

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