Identity
Person No.
4661
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Harold Elvey Frederick
Initials
H E F
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
35
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, mortally wounded while leading his company up Strand Street, at 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
2nd Regiment South African Infantry, photograph 1
Notes
Son of M. A. Creed and the late Elvey S. Creed; husband of Olive Frances Creed, of Bloemfontein, South Africa. Educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown. Had served with Rimington's Guides in the Boer War, then between the wars he became Chief Inspector of Roads in the Orange Free State.
Research notes
Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 4 C: named on photograph "2nd Regiment South African Infantry, photograph 1". Photograph: South African War Graves Project.
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