Identity
Person No.
18020
Service No.
11237
Last Name
First Name
Donald Charles
Initials
D C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MIA 785
Missing in action
Cause of Death
Missing, Death Presumed after being injured in a mine explosion while on an evening patrol near Ca Di Co, Italy. Enemy fire prevented the survivors from extracting the wounded. Attempts made the following day, to locate Mundell and Auld proved fruitless
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lance Corporal
Regiment
Royal Natal Carbineers 221
Later renamed
Natal Carbineers
(1961)
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
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Coordinates
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 Owen Brian and Ellen Margaret Mundell, of "Meadow Sweet", Fairford, Cathcart District, Eastern Cape. Born Cathcart. A farmer's assistant. He was unmarried. On Cathcart War Memorial
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