Service Details
Name:
 GASKELL
Given Name:
 EDWARD WYLDE
Initials:
 E W
Service No:
 V/428
Rank:
 Sapper
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Regiment:
 Miscellaneous Trades Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1918-05-27
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Age:
 41
Cause of Death:
 Committed suicide, by jumping down a mine shaft
Citations:
 ***Accepted by CWGC for War Grave Status & burial site under investigation
Additional
Information:
Husband of Eliza Gaskell, of 20 Hyde. Ave, Durban. ***Note that headstone says age is 46, and military records say age is 41.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 GERMISTON (PRIMROSE) CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Block 87. Row I. Grave 14.

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