Service Details
Name:
 WRAITH
Given Name:
 ALFRED OSBORN
Initials:
 A O
Rank:
 Major
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Regiment:
 Royal Engineers
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Unit:
 254th Tunnelling Coy.
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Former Regiment:
 formerly 6th South African Engineers
Date of Death:
 1917-06-13
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Age:
 33
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds
Decorations:
 Mentioned in Despatches
Citations:
 LG Sup 18 May 1917 pg. 4879
Additional
Information:
Son of Ald. G. H. Wraith, J.P. and F. L. Wraith, of Spennymoor, Co. Durham. Went as Mining Engineer to South Africa in 1911. Fought in German South West Africa. Landed in France November 1915
Commemoration
Country:
 Belgium
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Locality:
 Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen
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Cemetery:
 POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 II. E. 12.

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