In Memory Of

GORDON, WILLIAM

Service Details
Age:
 38
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 2837
Rank:
 Sergeant
Unit:
 4th Regt.
Unit 2:
 "A" Coy. attd. Machine Gun Corps
Regiment:
 South African Infantry
Date of Death:
 1916-07-05
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 II. C. 1.
Cemetery:
 PERONNE ROAD CEMETERY, MARICOURT
Localitly:
 Somme
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Husband of Helen A. Gordon (nee Blain), of 31, Bruntsfield Avenue, Edinburgh, Scotland. William Gordon enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry at Edinburgh in January 1902, aged 24 years, and was posted to 142nd Company. Gaining rapid advancement to Sergeant, he served in South Africa between April and September 1902, and was discharged in Cape Colony in the latter month. Re-enlisting at Potchefstroom in August 1915, after several years as a Policeman in the Transvaal and South African Police, he was posted to the 4th South African Infantry and arrived in France, via Egypt, in April 1916.