Identity
Person No.
1489
Service No.
3982
Last Name
First Name
Alan Bruce
Initials
A B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
31
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
POW 1,367
Died as prisoner of war
Cause of Death
Died of septicemia and myocarditis, whilst a POW, in the hospital at Piacenza. He had been wounded and captured near Tobruk on 5 June 1942 and shipped to Italy
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry (1st Bn); 2nd Bn converted to armour 1939-45 as 6th Reconnaissance Regiment, SA Tank Corps (Egypt)
Status
Active Citizen Force
WWII-only split: 1st Battalion fought as infantry; 2nd Battalion converted to armour, later amalgamated with 4th Armoured Car Regiment as 4th/6th ACR. Not a permanent whole-regiment Corps change. No SADF-era (1974-92) brigade attachment found in available sources -- left unrecorded rather than guessed.
Notes
Son of William Burt Pope and Elizabeth Beldon, of Villa Nova, Mossel Bay, Cape Province. Born in Heidelberg, Cape Province. Worked for the Dept Posts and Telegraphs in Pietermaritzburg. On Mossel Bay War Memorial, Western Cape.
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