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Identity
Person No.
21664
Service No.
127907
Last Name
First Name
Stuart Harrison
Initials
S H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
32
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
ACC 1,585
Accident
Cause of Death
Died in train accident
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Car
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Formed 21 September 1899 as the Imperial Light Horse (Second Boer War). Volunteer unit in the Transvaal Volunteers 1902-1913, then transferred to the Active Citizen Force as "5th Mounted Rifles (Imperial Light Horse)" in 1913. Reformed as an armoured regiment 1949; split into 1 LHR/2 LHR 1975 (Border War era), reamalgamated 1997. Renamed Johannesburg Light Horse Regiment 2019.
Notes

Son of Herbert H. and Blanche Elizabeth Robins; husband of Audrey Dorothy May (nee Roberts) Robins, of Umtata. He was a released POW (April 1945), having been captured on 1942 in Libya.

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