In Memory Of

AYRES, CYRIL LAMBERT

Service Details
Age:
 23
Date of Birth:
 1893-05-17
Service No:
 6000
Rank:
 Private
Unit:
 2nd Regt.
Regiment:
 South African Infantry
Date of Death:
 1917-04-12
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 2nd SAI, who went in 400 strong, lost 16 officers and 285 men.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 II. D. 21.
Cemetery:
 BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Son of Thomas Lambert Ayres, of 12 Halford Rd., Berea, Durban, Natal. Born Durban. Educated Weenen County College, Natal. A farmer at Taylor?s Halt outside Pietermaritzburg. Commemorated on St. Cyprian's Anglican Church, Durban. Commemorated at St Mary's Anglican Church, Greyville WWI Memorial.