In Memory Of

UNKNOWN SOLDIER, UNKNOWN SOLDIER

Service Details
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Rank:
 Rank Unknown
Regiment:
 South African Infantry
Date of Death:
 1918-04-10
Date of Death 2:
 1918-04-21
Cause of Death:
 Died on active service
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 IV. B. 23.
Cemetery:
 MESSINES RIDGE BRITISH CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Mesen, West-Vlaanderen
Country:
 Belgium
Additional Information
Found at Map Reference 28.U.2.b.1.1 or 50.7619, 2.8942. This is south west of the village of Mesen. One can assume that he died in the fighting of April 1918. His means of identification were: Rhodesian Numeral ***CWGC listing of unknowns in this cemetery, states this man was identified as a Rhodesian. Likely from the "Rhodesian" Company of the 1st South African Infantry, indicated by prefix RR before their regimental number. There is only 13 possibilities who this man could be, all listed on the Menin Gate Memorial. The dates of death reflected in this record are the date span from when these men went missing.