Identity
Person No.
25656
Service No.
8789V
Last Name
First Name
Anton Ernest Alexander
Initials
A E A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
24
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, while on a Recce patrol early in the morning of the 10th May
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes
Son of Andrew F. C. and Olina V. S. Turpin, of Bedford, Cape Province, South Africa. Educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown. On Bedford Town War Memorial, Eastern Cape. The Unit War Diary shows he died approx 0030hrs on the 11 May.
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