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Identity
Person No.
15218
Service No.
19206
Last Name
Marshall 27
First Name
Alan Ronald
Initials
A R
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1921 (±1 yr) 698
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
29 January 1943 105
Cause code
POW 1,367
Died as prisoner of war
Cause of Death
Died of cardiac disease 352
Died of heart failure, whilst a POW (possibly brought on by dysentery and starvation). He had been captured at Tobruk and shipped to Italy
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
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
Italy 1,880
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY 25
Grave Reference
IV. K. 35. 1
Coordinates
37.46263, 15.03889 OSM
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 Harry Percival and Helen Donaldson Marshall, of 249, Main Road, Sea Point, Cape Town. Born Cape Town. A clerk for the Union Castle Steamship Co. He was unmarried.

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