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Private ROBERT WALTER MORRISON

Service Number: 4147
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Infantry

"D" Coy. 1st Regt.

Date of Death

Died 18 July 1916

Buried or commemorated at

CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Plot 1. Row E. Grave 43.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info He was shot through the throat at Delville Wood in an attack made by himself and the seven other survivors of his platoon, Son of Robert Brown Morrison and Ruth Morrison, of Ireland.
  • Personal Inscription WELL PLAYED WALTER YOU WERE EVER A WHITE MAN
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