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23914
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Last Name
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Francis Eyton
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F E
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Age at Death
32
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Son of Frederick William Spurling (Sub-Warden of Keble College, Oxford, and Canon Residentiary of Chester) and Clara Eyton, his wife. Born on 27 April 1885 in England. He was a farmer at Egerton, Cradock District. He then became the Farm Manager at van Wyksfontein for JBS Greathead. Married Mary Geraldine Greathead (who died June, 1916) daughter of Dr John Baldwin Smithson Greathead M.B.Edin.,M.R.C.S., London and Esther Louisa Merriman, on 13 December 1913 in Grahamstown, Cape Town, South Africa. Served in S. W. Africa, 1914; dangerously wounded while rescuing one of his men, April, 1916, again wounded, April, 1917. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918
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South African War Graves Project