Identity
Person No.
20432
Service No.
5037
Last Name
First Name
Dennis Alfred
Initials
D A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
26
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, during attack of second battle of Alamein. In the face of heavy machinegun fire the South Africans stormed the strongpoint and after 15 minutes of desperate close quarter fighting they overcame the enemy resistance. The Natal Company [attached to the SA Field Force Battalion], like the FFB before it, suffered heavily - Lt. Dennis PLATT was killed
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
XI. A. 29.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Reconnaissance
Status
Volunteer unit (pre-1913); Active Citizen Force (Reserve) from 1913
Part of
Lineage from the Royal Durban Rangers (1854) through several volunteer mounted units, unified as Natal Mounted Rifles 1888. Reactivated for the Boer War as Natal Mounted Infantry. Transferred to the Active Citizen Force 1913; converted from cavalry to armoured reconnaissance 1934. Renamed Queen Nandi Mounted Rifles 2019.
Notes
Son of Cecil and Hilda Isobel Platt, of Isipingo, Natal. Husband of Pamela Helen (nee Leary) Platt. Born in Isipingo. A Sugar Planter and Miller by profession. Educated at Hilton College, Natal. Commemoration stone in Isipingo Cemetery, Kwazulu Natal.
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