Identity
Person No.
13149
Service No.
32627
Last Name
First Name
Claude Edward Warrington
Initials
C E W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
34
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
POW 1,367
Died as prisoner of war
Cause of Death
Died as a POW, whilst being loaded onto railway wagons to be transported to Germany, the rail yards at Aquila were bombed by USAF B-25 bombers. About 200 POWs were killed, all who were trapped in locked cattle cars
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 128.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Part of
Transvaal Scottish, formed 1902 after the Second Anglo-Boer War. Active Citizen Force infantry regiment through WWI, WWII (2nd/3rd Bns raised 1936/1939) and the Border War. Renamed Solomon Mahlangu Regiment 2019. Needs further research to break out exact era boundaries/role changes (e.g. 1953 and 1997 battalion amalgamations) as sources are found.
Notes
Son of Henry and Evelyn Lea, of Brereton Park, Transvaal, South Africa. M.A.
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