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Identity
Person No.
14277
Service No.
19179
Last Name
MacKay 17
First Name
William Murdock
Initials
W M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1914 (±1 yr) 425
Age at Death
28
Death Record
Date of Death
13 June 1942 98
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Killed in action, by a direct artillery hit on his slit trench at Eluet-et-Tamar, Gazala, Libya
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Cape Town Highlanders 73
Later renamed First City/Cape Town Highlanders (1943)
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL 1,284
Grave Reference
Column 126. 13
Coordinates
30.83823, 28.94696 OSM
Memorial
Memorial for South African soldiers who died at El Alamein, 1942. Photo: Farawayman, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_African_Memorial_El_Alamein.jpg)
Names on Alamein Memorial (Missing)
Memorial
El Alamein War Cemetery and Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Alamein Memorial (Missing)
On the panel
Column 126.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Part of
Infantry Formation (SAAIF) — Mechanised Infantry — Reserve
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes

Son of John Albert and Florence Ann Mackay, of 2 Frank Robb Street, Brooklyn, Cape Town. Husband of Catherina Priscilla Mackay, of 134 Buitenkant Street, Cape Town. Born Kimberley, Cape Province. A barman. He had 1 child.

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