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Identity
Person No.
23394
Service No.
178843
Last Name
Smit 145
First Name
Jan Gabriel
Initials
J G
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1922 (±1 yr) 602
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
01 November 1942 156
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Killed in action
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lance Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Corps of Signals 356
Unit
1st S.A. Bde. Sig. Coy. 7
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY 528
Grave Reference
XI. H. 19. 1
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 OSM
Memorial
Memorial for South African soldiers who died at El Alamein, 1942. Photo: Farawayman, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_African_Memorial_El_Alamein.jpg)
Names on Grave
Memorial
El Alamein War Cemetery and Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Grave
On the panel
XI. H. 19.
Notes

Son of Willem Johannes and Maria Johanna Smit, of Lindleyspoort, Transvaal, South Africa.

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