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Identity
Person No.
10712
Service No.
75833V
Last Name
Irvine 9
First Name
James Emslie Sheperd
Initials
J E S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1909 (±1 yr) 239
Age at Death
35
Death Record
Date of Death
22 June 1944 108
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,653
Killed in action, during the attack on Chiusi, Italy
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Sergeant
Regiment
First City/Cape Town Highlanders 112
Formerly Cape Town Highlanders (1943)
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Italy 1,880
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
FOIANO DELLA CHIANA WAR CEMETERY 66
Grave Reference
I. N. 4. 1
Coordinates
43.2619, 11.82189 OSM
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes

Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. S. Irvine, of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa; husband of Florence May Irvine, of Pretoria.

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