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Identity
Person No.
3027
Service No.
62507
Last Name
Burger 55
First Name
Willem Abraham
Initials
W A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1899 (±1 yr) 404
Age at Death
42
Death Record
Date of Death
02 August 1941 120
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Killed in action, by an enemy bomb
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Field Force Battalion 78
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,343
Unit
1/2 28
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY 528
Grave Reference
XXVIII. H. 6. 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
XXVIII. H. 6.
Unit History
Home Unit
1/2
Attached To
H.Q. 5th South African Inf. Bde
Notes

Husband of Anna Margarita Burger, of 40, 16th Street, Vrededorp. Born in Carnarvon, Cape Province. A compositor for S. Dyne & Co, in Fordsburg, Johannesburg. He had 7 children.

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