DELVILLE WOOD

LONGUEVAL - SOMME - FRANCE

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COURCELLES-AU-BOIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Somme, France

Thomas Edwin HURLE

Grave C13

Son of George and Mary Hurle (Source : C.W.G.C.).

74th Siege Battery, South African Heavy Artillery.

Died of wounds on the 20th November 1916. Age 36.

The Battery was at Colincamp since the 7th October 1916 in a position really untenable for a heavy battery, without cover and a favourite target for the German artillery. On the 20th November, the enemy kept up a severe bombardment all day, and four gunners were killed (the three men buried at Courcelles and Bombardier Frank Birt buried in Couin British Cemetery).