Identity
Person No.
12085
Service No.
5957
Last Name
First Name
Herbert John
Initials
H J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
30
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MIA 785
Missing in action
Cause of Death
Declared missing in action, on the 1st August 1916, fighting in Delville Wood
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On the Somme battlefield at Thiepval, overlooking the Ancre valley
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
3rd Regiment South African Infantry, photograph 12
Notes
Son of W. H. H. and Alice Maud Kerswill, of Devonia Apple Orchard, Grasmere, Transvaal.
Research notes
Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 4 C: named on photograph "3rd Regiment South African Infantry, photograph 12". Photograph: South African War Graves Project.
Citations
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