Identity
Person No.
28850
Service No.
19614V
Last Name
First Name
William
Initials
W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
ACC 1,585
Accident
Cause of Death
Died in Training Incident, accidentally killed, during "Exercise Durban", when shells fell short during the firing of artillery concentrations on Thimeima Box. This exercise was in preparation for deployment in Italy
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
First City/Cape Town Highlanders 112
Formerly
Cape Town Highlanders
(1943)
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes
Son of Mrs. Mary Worrall, of Cape Town.
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Unknown
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