Service Details
Name:
 GRAY
Given Name:
 WILLIAM JOHNSTON
Initials:
 W J
Rank:
 Captain
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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:
 1916-07-15
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Date of Death 2:
 1916-07-20
Age:
 39
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Delville Wood
Decorations:
 Long Service Medal (Natal)
Additional
Information:
Son of the late Walter and Isabella J. Gray, of Helmsley, Highflats, Natal; husband of the late Irene Gray. Was survived by his only child, Jocelyn William Gladstone Gray. Also served in the South African Campaign (Anglo-Boer War) (Siege of Ladysmith), 1906 Natal Rebellion, German South West Africa, a Lieutenant with the 3rd Natal Mounted Rifles. Educated at Hilton College. ***Date of death might be 15-July-1916, Killed in action on the 15th July 1916 in Delville Wood. "Captain Gray of C Coy was killed, he was very much loved by his men, a great loss" (D. Brice-Bruce, quoted in Delville Wood of I. Uys).
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 SUCRERIE MILITARY CEMETERY, COLINCAMPS
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Grave Reference:
 I. HH. 3.

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