Identity
Person No.
15436
Service No.
75138
Last Name
First Name
Samuel
Initials
S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
28
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOAS 7,466
Died on active service
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
XXVIII. J. 16.
Memorial
Memorial
Location
Forest Drive Extension, Pinelands, Cape Town
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Volunteer unit (pre-1913); Active Citizen Force (Reserve) from 1913
Part of
Formed 28 November 1855 as the Cape Rifle Corps, the first volunteer unit in the Cape Colony -- predates the Union Defence Force's 1913 Active Citizen Force / Regular Force system entirely. Transferred into the Active Citizen Force in 1913; later Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles, then Cape Town Rifles (1961); renamed Chief Langalibalele Rifles 2019.
Notes
Son of Abraham K. and Ettie Master, of Green Point, Cape Town, South Africa. ***Jewish
Research notes
Colyn Brookes, Mibisa: Volume One – Western Cape (Lulu, 2013, ISBN 9781447682523): El Alamein War Cemetery XXVII. J. 16.
Citations
Unknown
External References
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MIBISA Volume One – Western Cape
open source ↗
El Alamein War Cemetery XXVII. J. 16
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South Africa Government Gazette (gazettes.africa)
open source ↗
Government Gazette No. 2972, 12 Dec 1941, p.115 — deceased estate notice (died on active service)
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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