In Memory Of
MOSSOP, WILLIAM HODGSON
Service Details
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
6882
Rank:
Corporal
Unit:
2nd 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 2nd SAI, who went in 400 strong, lost 16 officers and 285 men.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
III. D. 20.
Cemetery:
BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
Localitly:
Pas de Calais
Country:
France
Additional Information
Son of Clement and Hannah Mossop, of Dalecote, Cartmel, Grange-over-Sands, Lancs. Husband of Mrs. Margaret McAlpine Mossop, of Masons Farm Cottage, Graftly Green, Sandway, Kent. His brother also died in service
