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Identity
Person No.
3501
Service No.
87934
Last Name
Casey 7
First Name
Walter John
Initials
W J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1918 (±1 yr) 641
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
09 December 1941 279
Cause code
SEA 815
Lost at sea
Cause of Death
Lost at sea 567
Lost in the S.S. Sebastiano Venier (Jason)
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
South African Irish 78
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,343
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL 1,284
Grave Reference
Column 133. 11
Coordinates
30.83823, 28.94696 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 Alamein Memorial (Missing)
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
Alamein Memorial (Missing)
On the panel
Column 133.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
South African Irish, formed 1 December 1914. Active Citizen Force infantry regiment; reformed for WWII (1st SA Irish suffered severe losses at Sidi Rezegh, Nov 1941); converted to artillery (22 Field Regiment) 1946-1959, reconverted to reserve infantry 1960. Renamed Andrew Mlangeni Regiment 2019.
Notes

Son of Bertram Moffat and Bridget Casey, of Lyndhurst, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa.

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