In Memory Of

ARBUCKLE, ROBERT IRWIN

Service Details
Age:
19
Date of Birth:
1897-12-29
Service No:
9373
Rank:
Private
Unit:
4th Regt.
Regiment:
South African Infantry
Date of Death:
1917-04-12
Cause of Death:
Missing in action, in the improvised and disastrous attack of the 9th (Scottish) Division on the German positions in the East of Fampoux. The 4th SAI lost 6 officers and 200 men.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Bay 10.
Cemetery:
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Localitly:
Pas de Calais
Country:
France
Additional Information
Son of Andrew Orr and Jeanie Inine Arbuckle, of 22, South Rose Deep, Germiston, Transvaal. Born Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland. An apprentice compositor