Identity
Person No.
19731
Service No.
26623
Last Name
First Name
Michael
Initials
M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, during attack on Bardia, North Africa. He was buried at Map ref 5173 3907 but his body was, reportedly, not recovered. There is a possibility that he is buried as "Unknown" in grave 13 F 1 in Halfaya Sollum Cemetry in Libya as that unknown body was exhumed at 5168 3907, which is about 200 meters away
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 121.
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 Morris and Golda Pass, of 36, 3rd Avenue, Bezuidenhout Valley, Transvaal. Born in the Orange Free State. A salesman. He was unmarried ***Jewish
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