Identity
Person No.
27421
Service No.
106219
Last Name
First Name
Sarel Petrus Jacobus
Initials
S P J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
27
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, shrapnel wound to the face and head, received in action during a night fighting patrol on 27 October, in the vicinity of El Alamein
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
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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. W. J. Visagie, of Vredendal, Cape Province, South Africa. Born in Vanrhynsdorp. A railway worker by profession
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