Identity
Person No.
20172
Service No.
19324
Last Name
First Name
Godfrey Roland
Initials
G R
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
38
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, received in the vicinity of El Makh Khad during the opening stages of the advance and attack at El Alamein. He had a compound fracture of his right femur, received 24 October, and died at No. 5 South African General Hospital on 28 October
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
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
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 Bertie Tom and Jessie Phillips, of 38 Alice Street, Goodwood. Husband of Grace Evelyn Phillips, of 30 Barnet Street, Cape Town. Born Cape Town. A departmental manager. He had one child.
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