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Identity
Person No.
28809
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Harry
Initials
H
Date of Birth
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
30
Military Service
Rank
Major
Secondary Unit
"A" Coy.
Defence Force
UDF 22,701
Union Defence Force
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MIA 784
Missing in action
Cause of Death
Missing in action, at Butte de Warlencourt
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On the Somme battlefield at Thiepval, overlooking the Ancre valley
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
1st Regiment South African Infantry, photograph 1
Notes

Only son of Col. Henry Woodhead, C.M.G., V.D., J.P., and Mrs. A. B. Woodhead, of Maisonette, Rondebosch, Cape Province. B.A. (Oxon and Cape). Barrister of Inner Temple. Also served in German South West Africa with D.E.O. Rifles (Adjt.). Commemoration stone in Cape Town (MAITLAND) Cemetery

Research notes

Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 4 C: named on photograph "1st Regiment South African Infantry, photograph 1". Photograph: South African War Graves Project. Date of birth recorded by the South African War Graves Project.

Citations

Brought to the Notice of the Secretary of State for War LG Sup 22 August 1918 - "For distinguished service in the Field and in connection with the campaign in German South-West Africa, 1914-15"

LG Sup 22 August 1918 p.9901
LG Sup 22 August 1918 p.9901
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