Identity
Person No.
1547
Service No.
144816
Last Name
First Name
Alfred
Initials
A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
24
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SEA 815
Lost at sea
Cause of Death
Lost at sea on S. S. Nova Scotia, torpedoed and sunk by U-177. En route from Aden to Durban, South Africa. Carrying 6 passengers, 11 military and naval personnel, 134 South African guards and 765 Italian civil internees
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Royal Natal Carbineers 221
Later renamed
Natal Carbineers
(1961)
Unit
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Column 118.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry (1st Bn); 2nd Bn converted to armour 1939-45 as 6th Reconnaissance Regiment, SA Tank Corps (Egypt)
Status
Active Citizen Force
WWII-only split: 1st Battalion fought as infantry; 2nd Battalion converted to armour, later amalgamated with 4th Armoured Car Regiment as 4th/6th ACR. Not a permanent whole-regiment Corps change. No SADF-era (1974-92) brigade attachment found in available sources -- left unrecorded rather than guessed.
Notes
Son of Henry and Elizabeth Bendall, of Townlands, Harrismith, Orange Free State. Born Harrismith. A general hand in the Nestle's Sweet Factory.
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