Service Details
Name:
 NEILSON
Given Name:
 JAMES
Initials:
 J
Service No:
 X/56
Rank:
 Bombardier
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Regiment:
 South African Heavy Artillery
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Unit:
 125th Siege Bty.
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Date of Death:
 1916-08-24
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Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action. The Battery was at Sailly-au-Bois from the 26th July to the 19th October 1916. Its main targets was the German batteries at Puisieux, Bucquoy and Grandcourt
Additional
Information:
Son of James and Mary Ann Neilson, of Divers House, South Dock, Sunderland; husband of the late Ina Neilson (nee Owen), of Knights, Transvaal, South Africa. On Cape Town "Company Gardens" Artillery Memorial. On Ryhope Village, Sunderland war memorial
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 SAILLY-AU-BOIS MILITARY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 I. C. 7.

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