Identity
Person No.
24869
Service No.
19559
Last Name
First Name
William Arthur Charles
Initials
W A C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
26
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, in the vicinity of El Makh Khad during the opening stages of the advance and attack at El Alamein
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
XI. B. 1.
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 William Upton and Dorothy Taylor, of 7 Histonia Road, Windemere, Cape Town. Husband of Dorothy Taylor (nee Dale), of 151 Lower Main Road, Observatory, Cape Province. Born Cape Town. A handyman for the S.A.R. He had no children.
Citations
Unknown
External References
Stories 2
William George Phillips was my grandfather. He was born on 17 June 1881 and enlisted for duty in East London, South Africa with the Imperial Light Horse in at the age of 17. Gramps died on 29 September 1973 at the age of 92. He was a wonderful person who spoek Xhosa and a dialect of the Bushmen.
Gramps also served in WW1.
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