Identity
Person No.
18345
Service No.
19293
Last Name
First Name
Gordon James
Initials
G J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
37
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
POW 1,367
Died as prisoner of war
Cause of Death
Died of cerebral hemorrhage, whilst a POW, at Brindisi. He had been captured at Tobruk on the 15 June 1942 and shipped to Italy
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
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Coordinates
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 James Henry and Mary Louise Nathan, of "Killarney", Colenso Road, Claremont, Cape Town. Born Port Elizabeth. A handyman. He was unmarried.
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