Identity
Person No.
12797
Service No.
77285
Last Name
First Name
Marthinus Gert Thomas
Initials
M G T
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SEA 815
Lost at sea
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Column 131.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Regiment Botha, formed 1 April 1934 at Ermelo. Active Citizen Force; 2nd Bn served North Africa 1941-42, renamed Regiment Christiaan Beyers 1951; called Regiment Pongola 1960-1966. Renamed General Botha Regiment 2019.
Notes
Son of Jan Hendrik and Maria Adriana Labuschagne, of P. O. Helvetia North, District Machadodorp, Transvaal, South Africa. Born Standerton, Transvaal. On Barberton War Memorial
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