Service Details
Name:
 GORDON
Given Name:
 WILLIAM
Initials:
 W
Service No:
 2837
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 4th Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "A" Coy. attd. Machine Gun Corps
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Date of Death:
 1916-07-05
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Age:
 38
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Additional
Information:
Husband of Helen A. Gordon (nee Blain), of 31, Bruntsfield Avenue, Edinburgh, Scotland. William Gordon enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry at Edinburgh in January 1902, aged 24 years, and was posted to 142nd Company. Gaining rapid advancement to Sergeant, he served in South Africa between April and September 1902, and was discharged in Cape Colony in the latter month. Re-enlisting at Potchefstroom in August 1915, after several years as a Policeman in the Transvaal and South African Police, he was posted to the 4th South African Infantry and arrived in France, via Egypt, in April 1916.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 PERONNE ROAD CEMETERY, MARICOURT
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Grave Reference:
 II. C. 1.

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