Identity
Person No.
21185
Service No.
4275
Last Name
First Name
Clive Francis Methley
Initials
C F M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
POW 1,367
Died as prisoner of war
Cause of Death
Died of acute oedema and abscess larynx, whilst a POW, in Sardinia
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Royal Natal Carbineers 221
Later renamed
Natal Carbineers
(1961)
Unit
Unknown
Secondary Unit
"B" Coy.
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry (1st Bn); 2nd Bn converted to armour 1939-45 as 6th Reconnaissance Regiment, SA Tank Corps (Egypt)
Status
Active Citizen Force
WWII-only split: 1st Battalion fought as infantry; 2nd Battalion converted to armour, later amalgamated with 4th Armoured Car Regiment as 4th/6th ACR. Not a permanent whole-regiment Corps change. No SADF-era (1974-92) brigade attachment found in available sources -- left unrecorded rather than guessed.
Notes
Son of Francis Christopher Rawlinson, of Harlestone, Mooi River, Natal. He was captured on 20 June 1942 while part of the Regiment's Composite Coy, detached as part of the defensive line at Tobruk. Another POW reported that he had actually died in hospital at Carbonia, Sardinia and had been buried there. It is likely his grave was relocated after the war.
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