Rank: 
Second Lieutenant
Service number: 
4240
Unit: 
50th Infantry Battalion
Location: 
Aveluy, France
Bapaume, France
Contalmaison, France
Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France
Dernancourt, France
Pozieres, France
Thiepval, France
Ypres, Belgium
Date of Death: 
7 November 1917
Enquirer: 
Mr W. E. Nelson
Miss E. Owens
Eyewitness Reports: 
John Glen
Herbert James Smart
James Peter Downey
John Holroyd Hill
John Laird
Alfred Bertie Coombes
Cecil Ernest Searle
Leonard Vernon Lester
Melville Larkin Brown
Alan James Nettle
Reuben Israel
Additional soldiers: 
George Wheaton
Packet number: 
4742
Date range: 
1917-1918
SLSA record number: 
SRG 76/1/4742
Richard Anacletus Nelson
Richard Anacletus Nelson | Source: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P10686930
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