Identity
Person No.
13968
Service No.
243187
Last Name
First Name
Roger Lawrence
Initials
R L
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
40
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
POW 1,367
Died as prisoner of war
Cause of Death
Died of gangrene in the right leg, whilst a POW. He was hospitalized at the San Lorenzo Hospital in Palermo, where he died
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 Ernest Charles and Sophia Lowe. Husband of Agnes Gladys (nee Browning) Lowe, of 8 Georgeson Mansions, Twist Street, Johannesburg. Born in Johannesburg. A clerk. On Jeppe High School for Boys Roll of Honour.
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