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Identity
Person No.
26509
Service No.
31552
Last Name
First Name
Alwyn Arthur David
Initials
A A D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
19
Death Record
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, during attack on Bardia, North Africa
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Car
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Formed 21 September 1899 as the Imperial Light Horse (Second Boer War). Volunteer unit in the Transvaal Volunteers 1902-1913, then transferred to the Active Citizen Force as "5th Mounted Rifles (Imperial Light Horse)" in 1913. Reformed as an armoured regiment 1949; split into 1 LHR/2 LHR 1975 (Border War era), reamalgamated 1997. Renamed Johannesburg Light Horse Regiment 2019.
Notes

Son of Aluyn J. and Minnie E. van Biljon, of 168, Tramway Street, Kenilworth, Johannesburg. Born in Bothaville, Orange Free State. An office junior. He was unmarried.

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