Identity
Person No.
1112
Service No.
241766
Last Name
First Name
Ignatius Petrus
Initials
I P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
28
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, during the rearguard action at the El Alemein bottle neck, while covering the retreat of the 8th Army from Bir Hacheim. He was initially posted as Missing, believed killed
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
XIX. F. 7.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry (1st Bn); 2nd Bn converted to armour 1939-45 as 6th Reconnaissance Regiment, SA Tank Corps (Egypt)
Status
Active Citizen Force
WWII-only split: 1st Battalion fought as infantry; 2nd Battalion converted to armour, later amalgamated with 4th Armoured Car Regiment as 4th/6th ACR. Not a permanent whole-regiment Corps change. No SADF-era (1974-92) brigade attachment found in available sources -- left unrecorded rather than guessed.
Notes
Son of James Charles and Susanna E. Barlow, of Farm "Langverwag", Kameel, Vryburg District, Cape Province. Born in Humansdorp. A farmer in the Haarlem area, near Vryburg.
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