Identity
Person No.
23814
Service No.
106471V
Last Name
First Name
Leonard Claude
Initials
L C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
33
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DIS 6,078
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of pneumonia, in hospital. He was admitted on 26 May 1944
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry, later Mechanised Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Witwatersrand Rifles, formed 1 May 1903. Active Citizen Force regiment through WWI/WWII/Border War (1970-1994 Border War operations). Renamed Bambatha Rifles 2019. Needs further research on Regiment de la Rey naming/merger history.
Notes
Son of John Charles William and Alice M. Sowden, of Keetmanshoop, South West Africa; husband of the late Elizabth V. Sowden. Father of Gerald Creswell Sowden (who was nearly 7 yrs old when his father died). Born in Keetmanshoop. A plumber before enlistment.
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