Identity
Person No.
26744
Service No.
127863
Last Name
First Name
Jan Johannes Matthys
Initials
J J M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SEA 815
Lost at sea
Cause of Death
Lost in H.M. Hospital Ship Ramb IV. Injured at Tobruk (burns to his right hand and thigh)
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Column 121.
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 Mrs. H. van der Westhuizen, of Johannesburg. Husband of Sarah H. van der Westhuizen, of 30 Fortesque Road, Yeoville, Johannesburg. Born in Johannesburg. Enlisted with the Special Service Battalion. He had one son.
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