Killed in action, in the improvised and disastrous attack of the 9th (Scottish) Division on the German positions in the East of Fampoux. The 1st SAI lost 2 officers and 203 men
Only son of James Francis King, of Bedford, England, and Alexandrina Louisa King, of Rondbosch, Cape Province. On Rondebosch War Memorial in St. Paul's Anglican Churchyard