In Memory Of

CURTIS, EDWARD JOHN

Service Details
Age:
 37
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 9739
Rank:
 Private
Unit:
 1st Regt.
Unit 2:
 "B" Coy.
Regiment:
 South African Infantry
Date of Death:
 1917-04-12
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, received in the improvised and disastrous attack of the 9th (Scottish) Division on the German positions in the East of Fampoux. The 1st SAI lost 2 officers and 203 men.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 A. 1.
Cemetery:
 ATHIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Son of John and Elizabeth (nee Kane) Curtis, of 6, York St., Grahamstown, Cape Province, South Africa. Born Grahamstown. Educated St. Aidan's College, GHT - enrolled 1891. Served as a Trooper #23075 with Marshall's Horse (composed mainly of the mounted portions of the First City / Grahamstown Volunteers & the Uitenhage Rifle Volunteers) in the ABW 1899-1902. A charge attendant at Grahamstown mental hospital. His brother William Patrick Curtis died in the ABW 10/9/1901 & another brother James Vincent Curtis also died in WWI on 18/10/1916. Commemoration stone in Grahamstown Old Catholic Cemetery.