Identity
Person No.
1034
Service No.
1022V
Last Name
First Name
Peter William Blenkin
Initials
P W B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
28
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,733
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, shrapnel wounds, when 3 Sherman tanks were knocked out in the vicinity of Panzano, Italy and the crews escaped while under heavy bombardment
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Captain
Regiment
Unit
Unknown
Secondary Unit
"A" Squadron
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
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Coordinates
Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Reconnaissance
Status
Volunteer unit (pre-1913); Active Citizen Force (Reserve) from 1913
Part of
Lineage from the Royal Durban Rangers (1854) through several volunteer mounted units, unified as Natal Mounted Rifles 1888. Reactivated for the Boer War as Natal Mounted Infantry. Transferred to the Active Citizen Force 1913; converted from cavalry to armoured reconnaissance 1934. Renamed Queen Nandi Mounted Rifles 2019.
Notes
Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Banham, of "Verde Prado", Donnybrook. A farmer in the Ixopo area before the war.
Citations
LG Sup 30 December 1941 pg. 7364
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