Service Details
Name:
PAWLEY
Given Name:
SAMUEL
Initials:
S
Service No:
4949
Rank:
Private
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Regiment:
South African Infantry
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Unit:
3rd Regt.
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Unit 2:
"D" Coy.
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Date of Death:
1916-07-06
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Cause of Death:
Killed in action. On 5 July the 3rd SAI were in support of the front in the old British and German front-line trenches immediately to the north-west of Maricourt. The next day there was great shelling and the South African regiments suffered some twenty casualties.
Additional
Information:
Son of Mary Pawley, of Wagon House, Tarporley, Cheshire
Commemoration
Country:
France
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Locality:
Somme
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Cemetery:
PERONNE ROAD CEMETERY, MARICOURT
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Grave Reference:
I. A. 18.

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