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
Son of Peter Martin Kruuse and Ada Winifred Fletcher Kruuse, of The Post Office, East London, Cape Province. Commemoration stone in Eastern Cape, GONUBIE, Presbyterian Church, graveyard