Identity
Person No.
18762
Service No.
4342
Last Name
First Name
Joseph
Initials
J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
38
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, during the attack on Bir Sciafscuif, east of Sidi Rezegh, Libya
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Royal Natal Carbineers 221
Later renamed
Natal Carbineers
(1961)
Unit
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Column 119.
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 Edmund and Mary Radcliffe Nicholson, of Mooi River, Natal, South Africa. Born in Hope, Derbyshire, England. A farmer in Himeville, Natal. Commemoration stone in Mooi River (St. John's Anglican Church) Cemetery.
Citations
Unknown
External References
-
South Africa Government Gazette (gazettes.africa)
open source ↗
Government Gazette No. 3017, 13 Mar 1942, p.84 — deceased estate notice (killed in action)
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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