Identity
Person No.
16304
Service No.
572529V
Last Name
First Name
Derek Clifford
Initials
D C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, in an engagement with enemy MkIV tanks outside of Chiusi
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Reconnaissance
Status
Volunteer unit (pre-1913); Active Citizen Force (Reserve) from 1913
Part of
Lineage from the Royal Durban Rangers (1854) through several volunteer mounted units, unified as Natal Mounted Rifles 1888. Reactivated for the Boer War as Natal Mounted Infantry. Transferred to the Active Citizen Force 1913; converted from cavalry to armoured reconnaissance 1934. Renamed Queen Nandi Mounted Rifles 2019.
Notes
Son of Douglas Henry and Hilda Jane Mearns, of Durban, Natal. Born Boksburg.
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