Service Details
Name:
 JOSE
Given Name:
 HARRY GORDON
Initials:
 H G
Service No:
 5061
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 7th Regt.
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Date of Death:
 1916-02-12
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Date of Birth:
 1895-12-08
Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Battle of Salaita Hill
Additional
Information:
Son of Richard Henry Jose and Kate Elizabeth Lovell, of 69 Clifton Street, Mayfair, Johannesburg. Born Mingoose, Cornwall, United Kingdom but his mother had been born in Grahamstown, Cape Province, South Africa in 1869 and married in Johannesburg his father born 13 Feb 1861 in Kea, Cornwall, United Kingdom. His father Richard Jose was a miner in Cornwall and it was this occupation that brought him to South Africa. The family returned to Cornwall during the Boer War but returned thereafter. An electrician
Commemoration
Country:
 Kenya
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Cemetery:
 TAVETA MILITARY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 IX. B. 1.

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