DELVILLE WOOD

LONGUEVAL - SOMME - FRANCE

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DOUCHY-LES-AYETTE BRITISH CEMETERY

Pas-de-Calais, France

Gustave Oscar ROOS

Grave III.D.19.

Son of Gustaf and Annie Roos, of 7, Queen's Gate Terrace, London. Served in the South African campaign, MA, BCL (Balliol College), Oxford. Born in London (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.

14th (Service) Battalion (2nd Barnsley), The York and Lancaster Regiment (94th Brigade, 31st Division).

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916.