Service Details
Name:
 WILSON
Given Name:
 GORDON FARQUHARSON
Initials:
 G F
Service No:
 1134
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 1st Regt.
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Date of Death:
 1917-09-24
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Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds
Additional
Information:
Son of Robert Henderson Wilson and Katherine Georgina Wilson, of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Born in 1892, and attended George Watson's College in 1904-7. On leaving School he returned to South Africa, and became manager of a large farm in the Transvaal. When war broke out he enlisted and went through the campaigns in German South West Africa. Volunteering for further service, he was sent to Egypt, and from there was invalided to England. He later was sent to France where he was promoted Sgt. His brother also died on service
Commemoration
Country:
 Belgium
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Locality:
 Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen
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Cemetery:
 NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 II. A. 6.

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