Identity
Person No.
3098
Service No.
14748
Last Name
First Name
Richard Michael
Initials
R M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
35
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, when the truck he was travelling in was negotiating a gap through the minefield in the RNC Sector at about 21:00 hrs
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Sergeant
Regiment
Cape Town Highlanders 73
Later renamed
First City/Cape Town Highlanders
(1943)
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Part of
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes
Son of Hurbert Burrough, of Carolina, Transvaal and Mary Burrough, of Garforth House, Pretoria. Husband of Pauline Magdaline Burrough, of 4 Inez Road, Sea Point, Cape Town. Born Pretoria. A printer. He had 2 children.
Research notes
Colyn Brookes, Mibisa: Volume One – Western Cape (Lulu, 2013, ISBN 9781447682523): Knightsbridge War Cemetery Acroma.
Citations
Unknown
External References
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MIBISA Volume One – Western Cape
open source ↗
Knightsbridge War Cemetery Acroma
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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