Identity
Person No.
2314
Service No.
817
Last Name
First Name
Charles James
Initials
C J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
33
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SUIC 381
Suicide
Cause of Death
Committed suicide, self inflicted wounds, in Grey's Hospital. He had been in and out of hospital since April 1942 and had been returned to the Union from Egypt
Military Service
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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 George Anthony and Hester Helina Boucher, of Newcastle Road, Dannhauser. Born in Newcastle, Natal. A railway worker. He was unmarried
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