DELVILLE WOOD

LONGUEVAL - SOMME - FRANCE

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BRAY MILITARY CEMETERY

Bray-sur-Somme, Somme, France

Hanslip Roland Carwardine PARTRIDGE

Grave II.H.6.

Son of Norman WR and Anne Elizabeth Johnston, of Portobello, Scotland. Late of GPO Pretoria, SA. Educated at Glenalmond (Source : C.W.G.C.).

South African Signal Company, South African Engineers.

The South African Signal Company was the XV Corps Signal Company. From Early December 1916 to 22nd January 1917, its HQ was at Etinehem and its sections worked in Bray and Maricourt sectors, then in the former French sector (Combles, Maurepas, St Pierre Vaast Wood, Bouchavesnes).