Service Details
Name:
 FAIRWEATHER
Given Name:
 HERBERT WILLIAM
Initials:
 H W
Service No:
 9212
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:
 1894-10-06
Age:
 22
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 John and Mary Amelia (nee Davies) Fairweather, of 2 Grewer Square, Kimberley. Born Kimberley. An engine driver in De Beers Coy.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 POINT-DU-JOUR MILITARY CEMETERY, ATHIES
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Grave Reference:
 Sp. Mem. A. 2.

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