Identity
Person No.
12967
Service No.
72828V
Last Name
First Name
Henry Thomas Peter
Initials
H T P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, at Amaye-sur-Seulles, about 4km west of Villiers-Bocage, just after the D-Day Normandy landings, in an engagement with elements of the 1st Coy, 101 SS Heavy Panzer Bn and the Panzer Lehr Div
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lieutenant
Regiment
Unit
Unknown
Secondary Unit
seconded to 1/7th Bn. The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
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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 Vincent Claud and Marjorie Rainsford Large, of Currie Road, Durban. An accountant at the firm Halsey & George, in Durban by profession
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