In Memory Of

UNKNOWN SOLDIER, UNKNOWN SOLDIER

Service Details
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Rank:
 Private
Unit:
 3rd Regt.
Regiment:
 South African Infantry
Date of Death:
 1916-07-15
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Delville Wood
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 VIII. I. 10.
Cemetery:
 DELVILLE WOOD CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL
Localitly:
 Somme
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Found at Map Reference 57c.s.18.c or GPS 50.0222, 2.8107. This is South of Delville Wood. One can assume he died during the fighting of July 1916. He was buried with McLeroth and Newton in same grave. Originally identified as Pte. J. Perkins, but later marked as unknown as another Pte. J. Perkins found in another grave.