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Identity
Person No.
2573
Service No.
102416
Last Name
Brice 5
First Name
Edgar Basil
Initials
E B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1915 (±1 yr) 447
Age at Death
27
Death Record
Date of Death
26 February 1942 107
Cause code
AA 1,737
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in aircraft accident 1,517
Killed in aircraft accident, ditched off Cape Town fuel starvation, in Bristol Beaufort Mk I #757
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Air Sergeant
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Air Force 3,524
Unit
36 Flt 3
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL 1,284
Grave Reference
Column 268. 41
Coordinates
30.83823, 28.94696 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 Alamein Memorial (Missing)
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
Alamein Memorial (Missing)
On the panel
Column 268.
Notes

Son of William E. and Louie Brice, of Newlands, Cape Province, South Africa. B. Com. (Cape Town).

Research notes

Colyn Brookes, Mibisa: Volume One – Western Cape (Lulu, 2013, ISBN 9781447682523): Alamein, Memorial.

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