Identity
Person No.
1432
Service No.
14755
Last Name
First Name
Robert Emmerson
Initials
R E
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
19
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, in the vicinity of El Makh Khad during the opening stages of the advance and attack at El Alamein
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lance Corporal
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
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Column 125.
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 Barbara Beckwith, of Homeleigh Miller Street, Claremont, Cape Town. Born in Cape Town. A clerk. He was unmarried. Former Scout in 2nd Plumstead Group, Cape Peninsular. Commemoration stone in Cape Town (Plumstead) Cemetery
Citations
LG Sup 24 June 1943 pg. 2868
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