Identity
Person No.
12460
Service No.
8515
Last Name
First Name
George Cummings
Initials
G C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
40
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, shrapnel wounds, received on 10 July when "B" and "C" Coys launched an attack, together with the Australians, on enemy (Italian) positions near El Alamein. He died 2 days later in hospital
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
XII. H. 3.
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 Kemp and Louisa Mary Knott. Husband of Margaret Joyce Knott, of Farm "Thorndale" Alice, Cape Province. Born in Beaufort West area. A farmer by profession
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