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Identity
Person No.
28119
Service No.
14243
Last Name
Weston 3
First Name
Eric George Bagley
Initials
E G B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1907 (±1 yr) 203
Age at Death
35
Death Record
Date of Death
17 July 1942 197
Cause code
DOW 2,732
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds 2,434
Died of wounds
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Warrant Officer Class II
Regiment
Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles 62
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,342
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,808
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY 528
Grave Reference
IV. C. 3. 1
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 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 Grave
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
Grave
On the panel
IV. C. 3.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Volunteer unit (pre-1913); Active Citizen Force (Reserve) from 1913
Part of
German South West Africa Campaign 1915 › Units
Formed 28 November 1855 as the Cape Rifle Corps, the first volunteer unit in the Cape Colony -- predates the Union Defence Force's 1913 Active Citizen Force / Regular Force system entirely. Transferred into the Active Citizen Force in 1913; later Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles, then Cape Town Rifles (1961); renamed Chief Langalibalele Rifles 2019.
Notes

Son of George M. and Elizabeth P. Weston, of Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa.

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