Service Details
Name:
BIRT
Given Name:
FRANK
Initials:
F
Service No:
673
Rank:
Bombardier
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Regiment:
South African Heavy Artillery
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Unit:
74th Siege Bty.
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Date of Death:
1916-11-21
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Age:
36
Cause of Death:
Died of wounds. The Battery was at Colincamp since the 7th October 1916 in a position really untenable for a heavy battery, without cover and a favourite target for the German artillery. On the 20th November, the enemy kept up a severe bombardment all day, and four gunners were killed (the three men buried at Courcelles and Bombardier Frank Birt buried in Couin British Cemetery).
Additional
Information:
Son of Charles John and Eliza Louise Birt, of Winsor Terrace, Beckton, East London. Husband of Florence Elizabeth Birt, of 2, Cato Rd., Clapham, London. Born East Finchley, England. A cyanide shiftman. On Cape Town "Company Gardens" Artillery Memorial
Commemoration
Country:
France
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Locality:
Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
COUIN BRITISH CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
VI. B. 7.

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