Service Details
Name:
 PETERS
Given Name:
 RUTLAND JOHN
Initials:
 R J
Service No:
 1882
Rank:
 Gunner
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Regiment:
 South African Heavy Artillery
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Unit:
 73rd Siege Bty.
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Date of Death:
 1918-05-15
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Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Died of septicaemia
Additional
Information:
Son of Alexander Martin and Ada Elizabeth Peters, of P.O. High Flats, Natal. Born Johannesburg. Educated Ixopo High School, Kwazulu Natal. A farm manager. Also served in German East Africa. Commemorated on Cape Town "Company Gardens" Artillery Memorial. Commemorated on Ixopo High School & St. John's Anglican Church, Ixopo WWI Memorials & on St. Saviour's Anglican Cathedral, Pietermaritzburg WWI Memorial scroll in St. Peter's Presbyterian Church, Pietermaritzburg.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 PERNES BRITISH CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 I. E. 15.

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