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Identity
Person No.
28706
Service No.
190949
Last Name
Wise 5
First Name
Edward Douglas
Initials
E D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1921 (±1 yr) 698
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
10 May 1942 160
Cause code
SEA 815
Lost at sea
Cause of Death
Lost at sea 567
Lost in H.M. Hospital Ship Ramb IV
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Sapper
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Engineer Corps 743
Later renamed South African Corps of Engineers
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL 1,284
Grave Reference
Column 141. 14
Coordinates
30.83823, 28.94696 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 Alamein Memorial (Missing)
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
Alamein Memorial (Missing)
On the panel
Column 141.
Memorial
Cape Town, Pinelands Jewish Cemetery (Forest Drive). Colyn Brookes, MIBISA Vol. 1.
Memorial
Pinelands Jewish Cemetery, Forest Drive Memorial
Location
Forest Drive Extension, Pinelands, Cape Town
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Notes

Son of Higham G. and Ruth Wise, of Cape Town, South Africa. ***Jewish

Research notes

Colyn Brookes, Mibisa: Volume One – Western Cape (Lulu, 2013, ISBN 9781447682523): Alamein, Memorial.

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