Identity
Person No.
3110
Service No.
1916
Last Name
First Name
Claude Fitzgerald Somerville
Initials
C F S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MIA 785
Missing in action
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On the Somme battlefield at Thiepval, overlooking the Ancre valley
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
1st Regiment South African Infantry, photograph 2
Notes
Son of the late Capt. George W. Burton, of Madras, Southern India, and of Naomi Elizabeth Burton (now Mrs. O'Connor), of "Calpe", Blackrock, Dublin. Educated at Sea Point School, Cape Town. On staff of National Bank of South Africa, Ltd. Also served in German South West Africa with Cape Peninsula Rifles and in Egypt.
Research notes
Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 4 C: named on photograph "1st Regiment South African Infantry, photograph 2". Photograph: South African War Graves Project.
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