Identity
Person No.
113
Service No.
127957
Last Name
First Name
Cecil Melville
Initials
C M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,781
Killed in action
Military Service
Location
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Locality
Unknown
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Car
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Formed 21 September 1899 as the Imperial Light Horse (Second Boer War). Volunteer unit in the Transvaal Volunteers 1902-1913, then transferred to the Active Citizen Force as "5th Mounted Rifles (Imperial Light Horse)" in 1913. Reformed as an armoured regiment 1949; split into 1 LHR/2 LHR 1975 (Border War era), reamalgamated 1997. Renamed Johannesburg Light Horse Regiment 2019.
Notes
Son of the late Melville Mortimer, of Johannesburg and Charlotte Adams (nee Ratinck), of 6920C, Malabar Street, Huntington Park, Los Angeles, California, USA. It seems his mother moved to the USA after her husbands death in 1937. Born in Pretoria. He was unmarried.
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