In Memory Of
ORMSBY, FRANCIS JAMES
Service Details
Age:
32
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Unit:
14th Bn.
Unit 2:
attd. 13th Bn.
Regiment:
Royal Sussex Regiment
Former Regiment:
formerly Natal Light Horse
Date of Death:
1916-09-03
Cause of Death:
Killed in action. The 13th Royal Sussex (116th Brigade, 39th Division) was in support of the 11th Royal Sussex during an unsuccessful attack on the German positions immediately in the North of the Ancre. The Battalion sustained 135 casualties.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
II. A. 44.
Cemetery:
HAMEL MILITARY CEMETERY, BEAUMONT-HAMEL
Localitly:
Somme
Country:
France
Additional Information
Son of Col. John Becher Ormsby, R.A. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918
