Service Details
Name:
 SMITH
Given Name:
 JOHN HANCORN
Initials:
 J H
Service No:
 4712
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 2nd Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "D" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1916-07-11
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Date of Birth:
 1887-01-16
Age:
 29
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, when the portion of the 2nd S.A.I. in Bernafay Wood was relieved by two companies of the 4th S.A.I. and returned to its original camping site in the vicinity of Cambridge Copse
Additional
Information:
Son of William John and Charlot Jane Smith. A clerk. Commemoration stone in Queenstown Cemetery, Eastern Cape
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. G. 10.

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