Identity
Person No.
17351
Service No.
26523
Last Name
First Name
Petrus Lavras
Initials
P L
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
26
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
POW 1,367
Died as prisoner of war
Cause of Death
Died in hospital in Egypt, awaiting repatriation. He was reported missing in June 1942 and later confirmed as a POW. He was released in Italy in September 1943 and returned to Egypt where he was hospitalized in October 1943. He was classified as "D" for return to South Africa in January 1944 but died before this could happen
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Car
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Formed 21 September 1899 as the Imperial Light Horse (Second Boer War). Volunteer unit in the Transvaal Volunteers 1902-1913, then transferred to the Active Citizen Force as "5th Mounted Rifles (Imperial Light Horse)" in 1913. Reformed as an armoured regiment 1949; split into 1 LHR/2 LHR 1975 (Border War era), reamalgamated 1997. Renamed Johannesburg Light Horse Regiment 2019.
Notes
Son of Emma Melvina Moolman, of 51a High Street, Brixton, Johannesburg. Husband of Dorothea Barbara (nee Botha) Moolman, of 87 Putney Road, Brixton, Johannesburg. Born in Vrededorp, Transvaal. A clerk.
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