In Memory Of

BURGES, EDWARD TRAVERS

Service Details
Age:
 38
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Rank:
 Major
Unit:
 1st Regt.
Unit 2:
 "D" Coy.
Regiment:
 South African Infantry
Former Regiment:
 formerly 9th Mounted Brigade South African Mounted Rifles
Date of Death:
 1916-07-18
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Delville Wood. Clive Featherstone (1st Bn B Coy) was still holding on in Strand Street. With him was Capt Percy John Jowett, 29 (1st Bn A Coy). Featherstone recalled: "Major Burges sent his orderly to call me to instruct me about a withdrawal. Captain Jowett of C Company went with me. We found that Major Burges had been killed by another shell bursting over his head"
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Pier and Face 4 C.
Cemetery:
 THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 Somme
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Decorations:
 Brought to the Notice of the Secretary of State for War
Citations:
 LG Sup 22 August 1918 - "For distinguished service in the Field and in connection with the campaign in German South-West Africa, 1914-15"
Son of the late Daniel Travers Burges and Alice Sarah Burges, of Bristol; husband of Charlotte Burges, of Highland Cottage, Clevedon, Somerset, England. On The Parish of Clevedon Saint Andrew Roll of Honour and also commemorated on the Roll of Honour at All Saints, Clevedon.