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Identity
Person No.
25655
Service No.
19558
Last Name
Turner 30
First Name
Walter Thomas Henry
Initials
W T H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1907 (±1 yr) 203
Age at Death
35
Death Record
Date of Death
26 October 1942 151
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Killed in action, in the vicinity of El Makh Khad during the opening stages of the advance and attack at El Alamein
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Cape Town Highlanders 73
Later renamed First City/Cape Town Highlanders (1943)
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY 528
Grave Reference
XI. D. 28. 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
XI. D. 28.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Part of
Infantry Formation (SAAIF) — Mechanised Infantry — Reserve
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes

Son of Sarah Wilhelmina Turner, of Rifle Rage Farm, Ottery. Husband of Ethel May Turner, of 1 Gordon Road, Wynberg, Cape Province. Born Johannesburg. A confectioner. He had a son and a daughter.

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