In Memory Of
KRUUSE, ERNEST CECIL
Service Details
Age:
26
Date of Birth:
1891-03-26
Service No:
9370
Rank:
Private
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:
III. A. 1.
Cemetery:
BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
Localitly:
Pas de Calais
Country:
France
Additional Information
Son of Peter Martin Kruuse and Ada Winifred Fletcher Kruuse, of The Post Office, East London, Cape Province. Commemoration stone in Eastern Cape, GONUBIE, Presbyterian Church, graveyard
