Identity
Person No.
24076
Service No.
19441
Last Name
First Name
Louis Jacob
Initials
L J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, during an air attack on the "A" Coy. positions, in the vicinity of Acroma, by 3 enemy aircraft at about 14:00
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Cape Town Highlanders 73
Later renamed
First City/Cape Town Highlanders
(1943)
Unit
Unknown
Secondary Unit
"A" Coy.
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
Forest Drive Extension, Pinelands, Cape Town
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Part of
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes
Son of Joseph Meyer and Flora Steinberg, of 1 Glen Court, Maitland, Cape Town, South Africa. Born Paarl, Cape Province. A Commercial Artist for Ackermans Ltd. ***Jewish
Research notes
Colyn Brookes, Mibisa: Volume One – Western Cape (Lulu, 2013, ISBN 9781447682523): Knightsbridge War Cemetery Acroma.
Citations
Unknown
External References
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MIBISA Volume One – Western Cape
open source ↗
Knightsbridge War Cemetery Acroma
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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