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Identity
Person No.
25194
Service No.
12567
Last Name
Thorn 2
First Name
Eric Gordon
Initials
E G
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1921 (±1 yr) 698
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
13 November 1942 111
Cause code
DOAS 7,466
Died on active service
Cause of Death
Died on active service 6,447
Died on active service
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Sapper
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Engineer Corps 742
Later renamed South African Corps of Engineers
Unit
2 Field Coy. 11
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY 528
Grave Reference
V. A. 6. 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
V. A. 6.
Notes

Son of William T. and Ethel S. Thorn, of Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa.

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