Identity
Person No.
13837
Service No.
31415
Last Name
First Name
Charles Edward
Initials
C E
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
30
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Military Service
Location
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Locality
Unknown
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Car
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Formed 21 September 1899 as the Imperial Light Horse (Second Boer War). Volunteer unit in the Transvaal Volunteers 1902-1913, then transferred to the Active Citizen Force as "5th Mounted Rifles (Imperial Light Horse)" in 1913. Reformed as an armoured regiment 1949; split into 1 LHR/2 LHR 1975 (Border War era), reamalgamated 1997. Renamed Johannesburg Light Horse Regiment 2019.
Notes
Son of George and Annie Lord; husband of Margaret Betty (nee Oxlee) Lord, of 32, 13th Street, Orange Grove, Johannesburg. Born in Johannesburg. A traveler. He had one child.
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