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Identity
Person No.
15177
Service No.
88064
Last Name
Marlin 2
First Name
Warwick Richard
Initials
W R
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1922 (±1 yr) 602
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
26 October 1942 151
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds 2,436
Died of wounds
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Regiment Botha 122
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
2nd 452
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY 528
Grave Reference
XI. C. 28. 1
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 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 Grave
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
Grave
On the panel
XI. C. 28.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Regiment Botha, formed 1 April 1934 at Ermelo. Active Citizen Force; 2nd Bn served North Africa 1941-42, renamed Regiment Christiaan Beyers 1951; called Regiment Pongola 1960-1966. Renamed General Botha Regiment 2019.
Notes

Son of Arthur John and Dorothy Marlin, of Parktown, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Born Johannesburg.

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