Identity
Person No.
28821
Service No.
6262
Last Name
First Name
Henry Michael
Initials
H M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, when an enemy shell landed on the 14 Platoon kitchen dugout in the vicinity of Tobruk/El Gazala
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 Henry and Christine Woods, of Drumoland Mansion, Florida Road, Durban. Husband of Ethne Trevaskis Woods, of Currie Road, Durban, Natal (she was serving in Nairobi, Kenya at the time). Born Pinetown, Natal. A clerk with South Africa Reserve Bank by profession
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