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Identity
Person No.
10107
Service No.
240808
Last Name
Holdcroft 2
First Name
George Ernest
Initials
G E
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1893 (±1 yr) 506
Age at Death
49
Death Record
Date of Death
28 November 1942 240
Cause code
SEA 815
Lost at sea
Cause of Death
Lost at sea 567
Lost at sea on S. S. Nova Scotia, torpedoed and sunk by U-177. En route from Aden to Durban, South Africa. Carrying 6 passengers, 11 military and naval personnel, 134 South African guards and 765 Italian civil internees
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Major
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Engineer Corps 743
Later renamed South African Corps of Engineers
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL 1,284
Grave Reference
Column 138. 10
Coordinates
30.83823, 28.94696 OSM
Memorial
Memorial for South African soldiers who died at El Alamein, 1942. Photo: Farawayman, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_African_Memorial_El_Alamein.jpg)
Names on Alamein Memorial (Missing)
Memorial
El Alamein War Cemetery and Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Alamein Memorial (Missing)
On the panel
Column 138.
Notes

Son of Joseph and Annie Elizabeth Holdcroft, of Parktown, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown. His brother also died on service. Commemoration stone in Johannesburg (Brixton) Cemetery.

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