In Memory Of

RAE, JAMES EDMOND PRINGLE

Service Details
Age:
25
Date of Birth:
1892-06-21
Rank:
Major
Unit:
7th Bn.
Regiment:
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Date of Death:
1917-11-30
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, when in command of, and rallying his Battalion.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Panel 6.
Cemetery:
CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL
Localitly:
Nord
Country:
France
Additional Information
Son of James Edmond and Constance Eileen Mary Rae, of Rosevanion, Padstow, Cornwall. Scholar of Worcester College, Oxford. On active service from Aug., 1914, without a break and was killed when in command of, and rallying his Battalion. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918