Service Details
Name:
 BLAIR
Given Name:
 ANDREW EDWARD
Initials:
 A E
Service No:
 8929
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 2nd Regt.
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Date of Death:
 1917-04-12
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Age:
 23
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.
Additional
Information:
Son of Robert and Agnes Blair, of 43a, Brand St., Kroonstad, Orange Free State. Born at Fouriesburg, Orange Free State. Proceeding to Scotland, he entered George Watson's College in 1906. He won the Shooting Championship 1912, and returned to South Africa that year, and entered the School of Mines and Technology, Johannesburg, intending to qualify as a mining engineer. In 1914 he was mobilised with the Rand Rifles. He was released and returned to the School of Mines. In Jan. 1916 he enlisted for service.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
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Grave Reference:
 II. D. 32.

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