Service Details
Name:
WISHART
Given Name:
DAVID HAY
Initials:
D H
Service No:
8090
Rank:
Private
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Regiment:
South African Infantry
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Unit:
4th Regt.
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Date of Death:
1917-04-12
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Age:
26
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, in the improvised and disastrous attack of the 9th (Scottish) Division on the German positions in the East of Fampoux. The 4th SAI lost 6 officers and 200 men.
Additional
Information:
Son of William and Isabella Wishart, of 21 High Street, Leslie, Fifeshire, Scotland. Born Leslie, Fifeshire, Scotland. A blacksmith. Enlisted Potchefstroom 7 December 1915
Commemoration
Country:
France
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Locality:
Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
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Grave Reference:
Spec. Mem.

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