Service Details
Name:
 WHITELAW
Given Name:
 CYRIL OSCAR
Initials:
 C O
Service No:
 3046
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
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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:
 1916-07-19
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Age:
 30
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 George and Ellen Whitelaw, of Ixopo, Natal; husband of Mary Jane Josephine Whitelaw, of 150, Gordon Rd., Berea, Durban, South Africa. Also served in German South West Africa, and in Egypt.
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. F. 14.

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