Identity
Person No.
19556
Service No.
144802
Last Name
First Name
Geoffrey Michael
Initials
G M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
27
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, gun shot wound to stomach, received 9 miles east of Sidi Rezegh on 30 November. He was treated at 15 Field Ambulance, but died at Taiebelessem
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
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Coordinates
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
Second son of Sir George Frederick Paddison, K.B.E., C.S.I., I.C.S., M.A.(Oxon), J.P., and Lady Eleanor Letitia Paddison, of Ingleby, 10 Grove Road, Merrow, Guildford, Surrey, England. Born at Roehampton, England. Educated at Rugby School, England, from 1928 to 1933. Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, England, 1933 to 1937; B.A. 1937; Grenoble University in France in 1937. Schoolmaster at Hilton College from 1938 to 1940.
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