Service Details
Name:
 PAYNE
Given Name:
 ARTHUR ROYLE
Initials:
 A R
Service No:
 6618
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 2nd Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "A" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1916-07-15
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Date of Birth:
 1891-04-25
Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Delville Wood
Additional
Information:
Son of Arthur Royle and Amelia Elizabeth Payne, of Pietermaritzburg, Natal. Born Pietermaritzburg. Educated Maritzburg College, Pietermaritzburg. A bank clerk. Served in Orange Free State (1914), German South-West Africa and Egypt. Commemorated on Ermelo War Memorial, Mpumalanga. Commemorated on Maritzburg College cenotaph. Commemorated on St. Saviour's Anglican Cathedral, Pietermaritzburg WWI Memorial scroll in St. Peter's Presbyterian Church, Pietermaritzburg.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.2
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Grave Reference:
 XXXIV. L. 2.

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