william Ardrey

[tbirduk]

William died 23 Mar 1918, and is remembered on the Pozieres Mamorial but can anyone decode the description of place of death in the soldiers Effects register?
See Attachment

[RaySearching]

 I read the Abbreviations as

23/3/18 Officially Accepted  on or   France

 

 

Ray

 

The soldier in question will have been reported as missing in the field  during the German Spring Offensive

Presumed to have died, on the 23/3/1918 his body lost to the battlefield

 

Edited 30 December , 2017 by RaySearching

[tbirduk]

thanks, I was trying to make sense of onor  

 

[Langdon]

 

Ray has the meaning right. The words in question are "officially accepted as on...." ...the above date.

 

Mike