Identity
Person No.
3308
Service No.
73142
Last Name
First Name
Hugh
Initials
H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
31
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, as part of "C" Coy together with Cape Town Highlanders "B" Coy, in an attack on well defended enemy positions near El Alamein
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lance Corporal
Regiment
Unit
Unknown
Secondary Unit
"C" Coy.
Defence Force
UDF 24,808
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
V. E. 4.
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
Husband of Elisabeth Campbell, of Fenniscowles Road, Umbilo, Durban later Falkirk, Scotland
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