In Memory Of

UNKNOWN SOLDIER, UNKNOWN SOLDIER

Service Details
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Rank:
 Officer
Unit:
 2nd Regt.
Regiment:
 South African Infantry
Date of Death:
 1916-07-08
Date of Death 2:
 1916-07-31
Cause of Death:
 Died on active service
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 I. CC. 12.
Cemetery:
 SUCRERIE MILITARY CEMETERY, COLINCAMPS
Localitly:
 Somme
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Found at Map Reference 57c.s.18.a.50.35 or GPS 50.0257, 2.8106. This is the South Western edge of Delville Wood. One can assume he died during the fighting of July 1916. His means of identification were: Officer's uniform, buttons, collar badges, G.S. botts. He was 5 ' 8" and wore a size 8 boot. There are 6 possibilities that this man can be, further research in archives may identify him