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Identity
Person No.
16189
Service No.
19202
Last Name
McMEEKING 1
First Name
Douglas Robert Thomas
Initials
D R T
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1915 (±1 yr) 447
Age at Death
27
Death Record
Date of Death
28 October 1942 147
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds 2,436
Died of wounds, received in the vicinity of El Makh Khad during the opening stages of the advance and attack at El Alamein. He was wounded in the abdomen on the 24th October
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lance 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
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY 528
Grave Reference
V. H. 23. 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
V. H. 23.
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 David and Sarah McMeeking, of 118 Strand Street, Woodstock, Cape Town. Born Woodstock. A flour miller. He was unmarried and had 3 brothers.

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