In Memory Of
BLAKEWAY, LEWIS GOWER
Service Details
Age:
29
Date of Birth:
1887-10-10
Service No:
2728
Rank:
Lance 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. C. 17.
Cemetery:
BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
Localitly:
Pas de Calais
Country:
France
Additional Information
Son of James Gower and Ruth Catherine Blakeway, of Maderia St., Umtata, Cape Province. A Labourer Agent. Wounded in Delville Wood in July 1916. Remembered on Umtata and District Memorial Plaque
