Identity
Person No.
13406
Service No.
19659
Last Name
First Name
William
Initials
W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
30
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, whilst a POW. Captured during an attack on enemy positions in the vicinity of Carmuset-er-Regem, Libya, on the 7 June he received a bullet wound to the abdomen and died the same day
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Cape Town Highlanders 73
Later renamed
First City/Cape Town Highlanders
(1943)
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
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Coordinates
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Part of
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes
Son of Cornelius William Michael and Helena Maria Less, of 10 Regent Street, Woodstock. Husband of Annie Florence Less, of 19 Plumer Road, Woodstock, Cape Town. Born Cape Town. A dry cleaner. He had 4 children.
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