Identity
Person No.
10377
Service No.
110086V
Last Name
First Name
John
Initials
J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
36
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, by a anti-personnel mine, while on a recce, near Sarteano, Italy
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
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Coordinates
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry, later Armour
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Part of
Pretoria Regiment, formed 1 July 1913 as an Active Citizen Force infantry battalion. Converted to armour 1943 (Italian Campaign, RAC depots in Egypt). Renamed Pretoria Armour Regiment 2019; one of 52 Reserve Force units renamed that year.
Notes
Son of Heinrich Schwake and Clara Maria Matilda Howe (formally Schwake), of Rosebank, Cape Town. Born Johannesburg. A hotel manager at the Rosebank Hall Residential Hotel in Johannesburg. He was unmarried.
Citations
LG Sup 7 December 1944 pg. 5614
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