Service Details
Name:
 BURTON
Given Name:
 CLAUDE FITZGERALD SOMERVILLE
Initials:
 C F S
Service No:
 1916
Rank:
 Lance Sergeant
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 1st Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "D" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1916-07-18
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Age:
 21
Cause of Death:
 Missing in action, at Delville Wood
Additional
Information:
Son of the late Capt. George W. Burton, of Madras, Southern India, and of Naomi Elizabeth Burton (now Mrs. O'Connor), of "Calpe", Blackrock, Dublin. Educated at Sea Point School, Cape Town. On staff of National Bank of South Africa, Ltd. Also served in German South West Africa with Cape Peninsula Rifles and in Egypt.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Pier and Face 4 C.

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