He was hit by shrapnel during the Battle of Bazentin Ridge and died from his wounds the following day.

At the conclusion of that campaign, he travelled to England and joined the 9th (Service) Battalion of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment.

[5] The 9th Battalion, as part of the 110th Infantry Brigade, was involved in the Battle of Bazentin Ridge on 14–15 July 1916, with the objective of taking Bazentin le Petit village and wood, part of the Battle of the Somme.

[7] An eyewitness account of Moll's death was written by a teammate of his from Hampton's, Harold Lewis Silberbauer of Kenilworth, Cape Town, who was also serving as an officer in the Leicestershire Regiment: We were now out of that nightmare wood in what was once a village – the village of Bazentin-le-Petit, and the day was 13 July.

Here I came across an old friend from Hamilton's, Toby Moll, who told me that Cyril Bam had been killed.