Identity
Person No.
14990
Service No.
19175
Last Name
First Name
Raymond Gordon Bernard
Initials
R G B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, fractured tibia, received during an air attack by 3 enemy planes on the "A" Coy. lines, at about 14:00 on the 11 February 1942, near Acroma
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
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
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Coordinates
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 Frederick Rudolph and Annie Mathilda Manthey, of 69 Lang Street, Rosettenville, Johannesburg. Born Cape Town. An apprentice printer. He was unmarried.
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