In Memory Of
KING, FRANCIS
Service Details
Age:
22
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Unit:
1st Regt.
Regiment:
South African Infantry
Date of Death:
1917-04-12
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.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Bay 10.
Cemetery:
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Localitly:
Pas de Calais
Country:
France
Additional Information
Decorations:
Mentioned in Despatches
Citations:
LG Sup 28 December 1917 pg. 13576
Only son of James Francis King, of Bedford, England, and Alexandrina Louisa King, of Rondbosch, Cape Province. On Rondebosch War Memorial in St. Paul's Anglican Churchyard
