In Memory Of
WRAITH, ALFRED OSBORN
Service Details
Age:
33
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Rank:
Major
Unit:
254th Tunnelling Coy.
Regiment:
Royal Engineers
Former Regiment:
formerly 6th South African Engineers
Date of Death:
1917-06-13
Cause of Death:
Died of wounds
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
II. E. 12.
Cemetery:
POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
Localitly:
Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen
Country:
Belgium
Additional Information
Decorations:
Mentioned in Despatches
Citations:
LG Sup 18 May 1917 pg. 4879
Son of Ald. G. H. Wraith, J.P. and F. L. Wraith, of Spennymoor, Co. Durham. Went as Mining Engineer to South Africa in 1911. Fought in German South West Africa. Landed in France November 1915
