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Lance Corporal HORACE LESTER KNIBBS

Service Number: 5642
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Infantry

2nd Regt.

Date of Death

Died 12 April 1917

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX

III. B. 32.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of Henry Edward and Emily Newton Knibbs, of 24, St. James Rd., Belgravia, East London, Cape Province. Served also in German South West Africa and Egypt.
  • Personal Inscription PER CRUCEM AD LUCEM LOVED & REMEMBERED BY ALL
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