Identity
Person No.
21326
Service No.
8777
Last Name
First Name
John
Initials
J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
33
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
ACC 1,584
Accident
Cause of Death
Died in Accident, 11 perished in the accident. Whilst clearing mines and transporting them to 3 South African Field Coy. It appears that one of the land mines had not been defused correctly and exploded on the back of the truck detonating the other mines and killing the 9 on the back of the truck plus the driver and passenger in the cab
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Cape Town Highlanders 73
Later renamed
First City/Cape Town Highlanders
(1943)
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Coll. grave III. B. 22.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Part of
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes
Son of Robert Edwin and Daisy Rennie, of Bedford, Cape Province, South Africa; husband of Winifred B. Rennie, of 20 Carrington Street, Cradock, Cape Province. Born Bedford. A farmer. He had one child. Educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown. On Bedford Town War Memorial, Eastern Cape
Citations
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