Service Details
Name:
 EDKINS
Given Name:
 VERNON JEFFERY
Initials:
 V J
Service No:
 1603
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 2nd Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "D" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1916-07-14
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Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, received at Bernafay Wood, when on the 9th July, three companies of the 2nd S.A.I. occupied Bernafay Wood
Additional
Information:
Son of Albert and Gertrude Edkins, of Clifton, Cambridge. On Cambridge Town war memorial for 1914-18. On Harrismith War Memorial, Free State.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Grave Reference:
 Plot 1. Row C. Grave 21.

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