Service Details
Name:
 EDWARDS
Given Name:
 CHARLES HENRY
Initials:
 C H
Service No:
 7690
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 3rd Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "B" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1916-10-16
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Age:
 26
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action. On the 14th October, the B Coy took The Pimple and a considerable part of the German communication trench. The B Coy was relieved by the A Coy in the night of the 15-16th October. The casualties of the 3rd S.A.I. amounted to 38 men.
Additional
Information:
Son of Charles and Mary Edwards, of Grahamstown, Cape Province; husband of Alice Lucy Nicholas (nee Payne, formerly Edwards), of 53, St. Paul's Rd., East London, Cape Province. Born Port Elizabeth. Educated St Aidan's College, GHT - enrolled 1904. A police constable. Declared missing in action, his body was found after the war. His son Arthur Travers Edwards (First City/Cape Town Highlanders) died in service in Italy in WWII on 31/10/1944
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 WARLENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 I. A. 9.

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