Identity
Person No.
18575
Service No.
6092
Last Name
First Name
Charles Victor
Initials
C V
Date of Birth
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
18
Military Service
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,414
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, at Delville Wood. As reported by Sgt Jack Naisby (3rd Bn D Coy) who later wrote from the London General Hospital: "Private Charles Nesbitt of the SA Scottish was the first man I saw killed in Delville Wood on July 16 and I buried him myself. I took his personal effects. He was an orderly attached to HQ and had just left our officers when he was killed about forty yards from our lines."
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
4th Regiment South African Infantry, photograph 12
Notes
Son of Charles Warren Nesbitt DSO and Jacoba Margaret Nesbitt, of Mafeteng, Basutoland, South Africa. Also served with Brand's Horse in German South West Africa. A bank clerk.
Research notes
Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 4 C: named on photograph "4th Regiment South African Infantry, photograph 12". Photograph: South African War Graves Project. Date of birth recorded by the South African War Graves Project.
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