In Memory Of

GERDS, FREDERICK NIVEN

Service Details
Age:
 26
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
Unit:
 176th Tunnelling Coy.
Regiment:
 Royal Engineers
Date of Death:
 1915-06-01
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 I. E. 8.
Cemetery:
 ST. VAAST POST MILITARY CEMETERY, RICHEBOURG-L'AVOUE
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Son of Ada A. Gerds, of Four Winds, South Benfleet, Essex, and the late F. W. Gerds. Educated at Repton School. Associate of the Royal School of Mines. Associate Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Manager of the Radnor Mine, South Rhodesia. Employed by the London and Rhodesia Mining and Land Company from 1910, as Surveyor and Assayer, Cam and Motor Mine. Resigned to join the Forces. Commissioned May, 1915. Previous service in Rhodesian Volunteer Force. Born in South Africa.