Service Details
Name:
 McCARTHY
Given Name:
 WILLIAM OFFLEY
Initials:
 W O
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 Rhodesia Regiment
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Unit:
 2nd Bn.
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Date of Death:
 1916-08-26
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Date of Birth:
 1879-12-17
Age:
 36
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, received at Wami River, on 17th August 1916
Additional
Information:
Son of John Leigh Goldie McCarthy, and Frances Olivia McCarthy, of Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Served with the Canadian contingent in the Boer War. Returned to Africa serve with the South African Constabulary. He returned to Canada one last time to serve in the Royal North West Mounted Police in Saskatchewan. He then returned to Africa where he bought a large farm in Rhodesia. Commemoration stone in Barrie Union Cemetery, Ontario, Canada
Commemoration
Country:
 Tanzania
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Cemetery:
 DAR ES SALAAM WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 8. B. 5.

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