In Memory Of
PAWLEY, SAMUEL
Service Details
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
4949
Rank:
Private
Unit:
3rd Regt.
Unit 2:
"D" Coy.
Regiment:
South African Infantry
Date of Death:
1916-07-06
Cause of Death:
Killed in action. On 5 July the 3rd SAI were in support of the front in the old British and German front-line trenches immediately to the north-west of Maricourt. The next day there was great shelling and the South African regiments suffered some twenty casualties.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
I. A. 18.
Cemetery:
PERONNE ROAD CEMETERY, MARICOURT
Localitly:
Somme
Country:
France
Additional Information
Son of Mary Pawley, of Wagon House, Tarporley, Cheshire
