Service Details
Name:
 COMLEY
Given Name:
 WALLACE ALEXANDER
Initials:
 W A
Service No:
 6703
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 1st Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "A" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1917-04-12
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Date of Birth:
 1894-10-30
Age:
 22
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 1st SAI lost 2 officers and 203 men.
Additional
Information:
Son of Mathew Henry and Annie Maria Comley, of "Orange Grove," Barkly Bridge, District Uitenhage, Cape Province. Born Somerset East. A farmer
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:
 II. A. 14.

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