Service Details
Name:
 STRETCH
Given Name:
 RICHARD ALDWORTH
Initials:
 R A
Service No:
 X/281
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 South African Engineers
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Unit:
 South African Corps Signal Coy, R.E.
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Date of Death:
 1918-03-24
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Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Missing in action, in Battle of Marrieres Wood
Citations:
 ***Accepted by CWGC for War Grave Status & burial site under investigation
Additional
Information:
Son of John Benjamin and Francis Annie Stretch, of No. 13 Railway Cottage, De Aar, Cape Colony. Born Queenstown. An engine driver.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 POZIERES MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 98 (Addenda)

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