Service Details
Name:
EDKINS
Given Name:
VERNON JEFFERY
Initials:
V J
Service No:
1603
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:
1916-07-14
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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 Albert and Gertrude Edkins, of Clifton, Cambridge. On Cambridge Town war memorial for 1914-18. On Harrismith War Memorial, Free State.
Commemoration
Country:
France
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Locality:
Somme
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Cemetery:
CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Grave Reference:
Plot 1. Row C. Grave 21.

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