Identity
Person No.
12334
Service No.
136466
Last Name
First Name
Frederick Johannes
Initials
F J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,733
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, received during an attack by "B" Coy on the enemy positions near El Alamein. They were transported 4000 yards forward, attacked and and successfully captured 55 prisoners
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
IV. F. 10.
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 Alexander Frederick and Barbara F. Kirsten, of Upsher, Balfour District, Cape Province, South Africa. A probationer mental nurse at the Fort Beaufort Mental Hospital by profession. His brother also died on service
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