Service Details
Name:
 ORMSBY
Given Name:
 FRANCIS JAMES
Initials:
 F J
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Sussex Regiment
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Unit:
 14th Bn.
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Unit 2:
 attd. 13th Bn.
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Former Regiment:
 formerly Natal Light Horse
Date of Death:
 1916-09-03
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Age:
 32
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action. The 13th Royal Sussex (116th Brigade, 39th Division) was in support of the 11th Royal Sussex during an unsuccessful attack on the German positions immediately in the North of the Ancre. The Battalion sustained 135 casualties.
Additional
Information:
Son of Col. John Becher Ormsby, R.A. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 HAMEL MILITARY CEMETERY, BEAUMONT-HAMEL
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Grave Reference:
 II. A. 44.

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