In Memory Of

GIDDY, WALTER

Service Details
Age:
21
Date of Birth:
1895-06-02
Service No:
1613
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit:
2nd Regt.
Regiment:
South African Infantry
Date of Death:
1917-04-12
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, in the improvised and disastrous attack of the 9th (Scottish) Division on the German positions in the East of Fampoux. The 2nd SAI, who went in 400 strong, lost 16 officers and 285 men.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Sp. Mem. B. 9.
Cemetery:
POINT-DU-JOUR MILITARY CEMETERY, ATHIES
Localitly:
Pas de Calais
Country:
France
Additional Information
Son of Henry Richard Giddy, J.P., and Mrs. Catherine Octavia Giddy, of Lauriston, New England Station, Cape Colony, South Africa.