Identity
Person No.
19563
Service No.
4268
Last Name
First Name
Adolphe Ludwig Herman
Initials
A L H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
38
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DISCH 606
Died after discharge
Cause of Death
Died of meningitis, after discharge, in Congella Hospital. He was boarded medically unfit and discharged on 15 December 1942
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Sergeant
Regiment
Royal Natal Carbineers 221
Later renamed
Natal Carbineers
(1961)
Unit
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
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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 Henrich Friedrich Wilhelm and Emma Marie Margaret Paeper, of Ntabamhlope, Natal. Husband of Ethel Ann Paeper (nee Milner), of 37 Monument Road, Rossburgh, Durban. Born Estcourt. A farmer. He had 2 children.
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