Identity
Person No.
19754
Service No.
4189
Last Name
First Name
Atholl Mason
Initials
A M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
36
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, at the Italian border post of El Wak, on the northern Kenyan frontier with Italian Somaliland. While advancing on Durro Hachi, a group of huts within a thorn zariba, had to cross a clearing about half a mile wide under fairly hot enemy fire. The Regiment lost its first World War II casualty, in this otherwise successful clash
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
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
Part of
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 James and Eunice Warder Paton, of Bulwer Road, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa; husband of Mildred Grace Paton, of Deanery Lane, Pietermaritzburg. Born in Pietermaritzburg. A clerk.
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