Service Details
Name:
 DOCKER
Given Name:
 RUPERT ELEY
Initials:
 R E
Service No:
 7258
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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Date of Birth:
 1892-01-11
Age:
 25
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 Edwin Docker, of Malvern House School, Worthing, Sussex. Previously wounded on 10 October 1916
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:
 III. B. 15.

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