Identity
Person No.
15703
Service No.
19266
Last Name
First Name
Stephen
Initials
S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
28
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, in a Stuka attack on the 2 South African Infantry Brigade assembly area at Tobruk
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Cape Town Highlanders 73
Later renamed
First City/Cape Town Highlanders
(1943)
Unit
Unknown
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 126.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Part of
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes
Son of J. J. May and Z. May, of 4 Shannon Street, Salt River, Cape Province. Husband of Emily Joseph May, of 32 Hopkins Street, Salt River, Cape Province. Born Cape Town. A grocery manager.
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