In Memory Of

NEILSON, JAMES

Service Details
Age:
 24
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 X/56
Rank:
 Bombardier
Unit:
 125th Siege Bty.
Regiment:
 South African Heavy Artillery
Date of Death:
 1916-08-24
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action. The Battery was at Sailly-au-Bois from the 26th July to the 19th October 1916. Its main targets was the German batteries at Puisieux, Bucquoy and Grandcourt
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 I. C. 7.
Cemetery:
 SAILLY-AU-BOIS MILITARY CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Son of James and Mary Ann Neilson, of Divers House, South Dock, Sunderland; husband of the late Ina Neilson (nee Owen), of Knights, Transvaal, South Africa. On Cape Town "Company Gardens" Artillery Memorial. On Ryhope Village, Sunderland war memorial