In Memory Of

GRAY, WILLIAM JOHNSTON

Service Details
Age:
 39
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Rank:
 Captain
Unit:
 2nd Regt.
Unit 2:
 "C" Coy.
Regiment:
 South African Infantry
Date of Death:
 1916-07-15
Date of Death 2:
 1916-07-20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Delville Wood
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 I. HH. 3.
Cemetery:
 SUCRERIE MILITARY CEMETERY, COLINCAMPS
Localitly:
 Somme
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Decorations:
 Long Service Medal (Natal)
Son of the late Walter and Isabella J. Gray, of Helmsley, Highflats, Natal; husband of the late Irene Gray. Was survived by his only child, Jocelyn William Gladstone Gray. Also served in the South African Campaign (Anglo-Boer War) (Siege of Ladysmith), 1906 Natal Rebellion, German South West Africa, a Lieutenant with the 3rd Natal Mounted Rifles. Educated at Hilton College. ***Date of death might be 15-July-1916, Killed in action on the 15th July 1916 in Delville Wood. "Captain Gray of C Coy was killed, he was very much loved by his men, a great loss" (D. Brice-Bruce, quoted in Delville Wood of I. Uys).