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Identity
Person No.
21292
Service No.
225764V
Last Name
First Name
Marshall Graham Hugh
Initials
M G H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, received 21 June, during the attack on Chiusi, shrapnel wounds to his head and thigh but failed to recover from his injuries
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Trooper
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Locality
Unknown
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 Hugh and Dorothy P. Reid, of St George Street, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Born in Johannesburg. A bus conductor for the Johannesburg Municipality.

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