In Memory Of
BEZUIDENHOUT, PIETER HENDRICK SCHALK
Service Details
Age:
22
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Unit:
94th Bde.
Unit 2:
"A" Bty.
Regiment:
Royal Field Artillery
Date of Death:
1916-12-24
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, at Battle of the Somme
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
V. F. 41.
Cemetery:
VERMELLES BRITISH CEMETERY
Localitly:
Pas de Calais
Country:
France
Additional Information
Decorations:
M C
Citations:
LG Sup 25 August 1916 pg. 8456 - "For conspicuous gallantry on all occasions during operations, notably when carrying out dangerous reconnaissances. On one occasion, when his dug-out was blown in by a shell which killed some men and wounded others, although much shaken himself he bore the whole weight of the roof on his shoulders for some time and prevented it from falling in on the wounded."
Eldest son of the Rev. Pieter Hendrick Schalk Bezuidenhout D.M T., and Annie Catherine Bezuidenhout (nee Hart), of Rietfontein, Germistown, Transvaal, South Africa.
