Identity
Person No.
19772
Service No.
14673
Last Name
First Name
Douglas Alexander
Initials
D A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, during an enemy artillery barrage on "B" Coy. positions in the vicinity of Carmuset-er-Regem, Libya
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lieutenant
Regiment
Cape Town Highlanders 73
Later renamed
First City/Cape Town Highlanders
(1943)
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Column 124.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Part of
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes
Son of John and Constance Mildred Patterson, of "Esterel", Penrose Road, Muizenberg, Cape Town. Born Wynburg, Cape Town. Employed with Shell Petroleum Company of South Africa. He was unmarried. Commemoration stone in Cape Town (Plumstead) Cemetery
Citations
Unknown
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