Service Details
Name:
 REID
Given Name:
 GEORGE STIRRIT
Initials:
 G S
Service No:
 5087
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 8th Infantry (Transvaal Scottish)
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Unit:
 1st Bn.
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Unit 2:
 attd. South African Field Post and Telegraph Corps
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Date of Death:
 1915-04-26
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Age:
 63
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, resulting from an attack by a German force on South African railway protection troops on 26 April 1915
Additional
Information:
Son of George Stirrit Reid and Rachel Tyre Reid. Born at Ardrossan, Scotland. On Balfour War Memorial
Commemoration
Country:
 Namibia
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Cemetery:
 TREKKOPJE CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 4.

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