Identity
Person No.
19254
Service No.
26518
Last Name
First Name
Patrick Rhodes
Initials
P R
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, received at El Alamein, when a bomb dropped by an enemy plane struck near the Battle HQ pill box. He was doing the duties of the RSM at the time
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Warrant Officer Class II
Regiment
Unit
Unknown
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
IV. D. 16.
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 Michael Joseph and Constance O'Donnell (nee Riley), of 44 Ocean Street, Kensington, Johannesburg. Born in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. A clerk. He was unmarried. On Jeppe High School for Boys Roll of Honour.
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