Identity
Person No.
26913
Service No.
1286
Last Name
First Name
Willem Jacobus Martinus
Initials
W J M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
24
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, shrapnel wound to his left femur, received in action during an attack on the 24 October, in the vicinity of El Alamein
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
XIII. B. 11.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Reconnaissance
Status
Volunteer unit (pre-1913); Active Citizen Force (Reserve) from 1913
Part of
Lineage from the Royal Durban Rangers (1854) through several volunteer mounted units, unified as Natal Mounted Rifles 1888. Reactivated for the Boer War as Natal Mounted Infantry. Transferred to the Active Citizen Force 1913; converted from cavalry to armoured reconnaissance 1934. Renamed Queen Nandi Mounted Rifles 2019.
Notes
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. van Niekerk, of St. Johns Street, Kokstad, Natal, South Africa. Born in Kokstad. A farmer by profession. ***He was promoted to T/Cpl on 1 Oct 1942. The headstone is incorrect
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