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Identity
Person No.
21497
Service No.
135266V
Last Name
First Name
Donald Inglis
Initials
D I
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
26
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, loss of left arm during heavy fighting between Fabrico and Vallerona, Italy. It is thought that he was wounded when a Sherman tank was hit by "bazooka" fire during the engagement
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 Richard Rigby, of Strubens Road, Mowbray, Cape Town. Husband of Marije Rigby, of Liesbeek Road, Rosebank, Cape Town. Born Cape Town. A machine operator in Johannesburg by profession

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