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Identity
Person No.
19458
Service No.
74338
Last Name
Orr 8
First Name
Hugh Rodney Eastwood
Initials
H R E
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1921 (±1 yr) 698
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
17 July 1942 197
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds 2,436
Died of wounds
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Engineer Corps 743
Later renamed South African Corps of Engineers
Unit
46 Survey Coy. 8
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY 528
Grave Reference
XXV. D. 1. 1
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 OSM
Memorial
Memorial for South African soldiers who died at El Alamein, 1942. Photo: Farawayman, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_African_Memorial_El_Alamein.jpg)
Names on Grave
Memorial
El Alamein War Cemetery and Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Grave
On the panel
XXV. D. 1.
Notes

Son of Thomas George and Eva Beryl Orr, of Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa.

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