Service Details
Name:
 SMITH
Given Name:
 CLAUDE ALFRED CANNON
Initials:
 C A C
Service No:
 6414
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 2nd Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "C" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1916-07-10
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Date of Birth:
 1891-04-25
Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, received at Bernafay Wood, when on the 9th July, three companies of the 2nd S.A.I. occupied Bernafay Wood
Additional
Information:
Son of John Francis and Sarah Fanny Smith, of Trafalgar Rd., Cambridge, South Africa. Born Umtata, Eastern Cape. Native of Umtata, Transkei, Cape Province, South Africa. Commemoration stone in East London (Cambridge) Cemetery. On Cambridge Town war memorial for 1914-18.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 DIVE COPSE BRITISH CEMETERY, SAILLY-LE-SEC
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Grave Reference:
 II. D. 8.

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