Identity
Person No.
20450
Service No.
573081V
Last Name
First Name
Samuel
Initials
S
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 engagements in the vicinity of Stanco, Italy
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
First City/Cape Town Highlanders 112
Formerly
Cape Town Highlanders
(1943)
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
Forest Drive Extension, Pinelands, Cape Town
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes
Son of Morris and Anne Pogrund, of Gardens, Cape Town. ***Jewish
Research notes
Colyn Brookes, Mibisa: Volume One – Western Cape (Lulu, 2013, ISBN 9781447682523): Castiglione South African Cemetery I. A. 18.
Citations
Unknown
External References
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MIBISA Volume One – Western Cape
open source ↗
Castiglione South African Cemetery I. A. 18
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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