In Memory Of
WHITTAL, RICHARD DAWSON
Service Details
Age:
19
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
8322
Rank:
Private
Unit:
1st 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 1st SAI lost 2 officers and 203 men.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
II. H. 7.
Cemetery:
BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
Localitly:
Pas de Calais
Country:
France
Additional Information
Son of John and Edith Whittal, of Cove Rock, East London, South Africa.
