Identity
Person No.
1944
Service No.
14762
Last Name
First Name
Alexander Richard
Initials
A R
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
26
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SEA 815
Lost at sea
Cause of Death
Lost in H.M. Hospital Ship Ramb IV. Wounded on the 7 May in the shoulder and elbow and was being evacuated for treatment
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Column 124.
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 John and Catherine Blight, of Cape Town, South Africa; husband of Norah Margaret Blight, of 202 Bree Street, Cape Town. Born Cape Town. A commercial traveler. He had no children.
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