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Identity
Person No.
1957
Service No.
127938
Last Name
First Name
Arthur Stanley
Initials
A S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Cause code
KIA 14,781
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, during attack on Bardia, North Africa
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Defence Force
UDF 24,808
Union Defence Force
Location
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
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 Israel and Gretta Bloch, of 4, Milner Road, Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. Born in Bloemfontein. A University Student. ***Jewish

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