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Identity
Person No.
15215
Service No.
19251
Last Name
Marsh 11
First Name
Stephen John Robert
Initials
S J R
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1919 (±1 yr) 581
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
28 September 1941 100
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,655
Killed in action, during an enemy air raid
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
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY 528
Grave Reference
XXX. G. 10. 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
XXX. G. 10.
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 Frederick Barlow and Minnie Rebecca Marsh, of 6 Grosvenor Flats, Links Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa. Born Pretoria. A clerk at Standard Bank.

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