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Identity
Person No.
25440
Service No.
73329
Last Name
First Name
Percival George
Initials
P G
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
45
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DIS 6,079
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of cancer, esophagus, at St. Augustine's Hospital, Durban
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Reconnaissance
Status
Volunteer unit (pre-1913); Active Citizen Force (Reserve) from 1913
Part of
Lineage from the Royal Durban Rangers (1854) through several volunteer mounted units, unified as Natal Mounted Rifles 1888. Reactivated for the Boer War as Natal Mounted Infantry. Transferred to the Active Citizen Force 1913; converted from cavalry to armoured reconnaissance 1934. Renamed Queen Nandi Mounted Rifles 2019.
Notes

Son of Mrs. Emma Travers, of Wests, Durban. He had 2 daughters, one of which was nominated as his Next of kin, Mrs. P. S. Sant, of The Palms, Percy Osborne Road, Durban. Born Southampton, England. A caterer by profession

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