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Identity
Person No.
21523
Service No.
8779V
Last Name
Ritchie 14
First Name
Frank Johnson
Initials
F J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1919 (±1 yr) 581
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
22 June 1944 108
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Killed in action, during the attack on Chiusi, Italy
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lance Corporal
Regiment
First City/Cape Town Highlanders 112
Formerly Cape Town Highlanders (1943)
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Italy 1,880
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
FOIANO DELLA CHIANA WAR CEMETERY 66
Grave Reference
I. N. 5. 1
Coordinates
43.2619, 11.82189 OSM
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes

Son of Dr. J. H. Ritchie, of Queenstown. Educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown. On Grahamstown Cathedral Parish Church memorial.

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