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H.A.C. CEMETERY

Ecoust-St Mein, Pas-de-Calais, France

One South African, who served in the Devonshire Regiment, is commemorated in this cemetery.

Edward Macartney

READ

Mory-Ecoust Road Cemetery N°1 Memorial 5.

Son of William Macartney Read, of Silverton, Devon (Source : C.W.G.C.).

Registered on the Roll of South Africans who fell 1914-1918 edited after the War by the South African authorities.

9th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment (20th Brigade, 7th Division).

Killed in action on the 2nd April 1917.

 

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