In Memory Of
EDKINS, VERNON JEFFERY
Service Details
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
1603
Rank:
Private
Unit:
2nd Regt.
Unit 2:
"D" Coy.
Regiment:
South African Infantry
Date of Death:
1916-07-14
Cause of Death:
Died of wounds, received at Bernafay Wood, when on the 9th July, three companies of the 2nd S.A.I. occupied Bernafay Wood
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Plot 1. Row C. Grave 21.
Cemetery:
CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Localitly:
Somme
Country:
France
Additional Information
Son of Albert and Gertrude Edkins, of Clifton, Cambridge. On Cambridge Town war memorial for 1914-18. On Harrismith War Memorial, Free State.
