Service Details
Name:
 DIGHT
Given Name:
 CHARLES WILLIAM
Initials:
 C W
Service No:
 4850
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 1st Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "C" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1916-05-21
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Age:
 40
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Additional
Information:
Husband of Mary Dight, of 212 Grayling Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal. Born Kent 1876. He attested for the 1st South African Infantry at Potchefstroom on 7 September 1915, his papers recording previous service with Brabant?s Horse, the Scottish Light Horse and the Natal Light Horse. Posted to Alexandria per Saxonia on 29 December 1915, he was transferred to France in April 1916
Commemoration
Country:
 Belgium
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Locality:
 Comines-Warneton, Hainaut
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Cemetery:
 GUNNERS FARM MILITARY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 R. 11.

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