Identity
Person No.
20830
Service No.
1412
Last Name
First Name
Idris Wilmore
Initials
I W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
30
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
POW 1,367
Died as prisoner of war
Cause of Death
Died whilst a POW. It is thought he was captured in the vicinity of Bir Riqait, as the Regiment passed through there on 17 June 1942, the day he was reported missing
Military Service
Location
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Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
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 Wilmore Frederic and Florence May Putterill, of Bulwer, Natal, South Africa. Born Pietermaritzburg. A farmer by profession
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