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Identity
Person No.
23658
Service No.
313316V
Last Name
Smook 1
First Name
William Thomas
Initials
W T
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1922 (±1 yr) 602
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
05 July 1943 100
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Killed in action, crashed in sea 6 miles off Cape Carthage after take-off for Sciacca, in Douglas Boston Mk III #AL762
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Flight Sergeant
Regiment
24 Squadron 183
Corps
South African Air Force 3,524
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL 1,284
Grave Reference
Column 278. 39
Coordinates
30.83823, 28.94696 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 Alamein Memorial (Missing)
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
Alamein Memorial (Missing)
On the panel
Column 278.
Unit History
Part of
Disbanded air and training squadrons
Notes

Son of Pieter Johannes Osborne and Josephine Smook, of Nigel, Transvaal, South Africa.

Research notes


5 Sep 2026: Unit "24 Squadron" (a squadron, SAAF's regiment-equivalent) promoted to Regiment, per John's decision. Corps (South African Air Force) unchanged.

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