Identity
Person No.
41417
Service No.
4280
Last Name
First Name
Laurence Westerford
Initials
L W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
43
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Trooper
Regiment
Unit
Secondary Unit
"B" Squadron
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Car
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Formed 21 September 1899 as the Imperial Light Horse (Second Boer War). Volunteer unit in the Transvaal Volunteers 1902-1913, then transferred to the Active Citizen Force as "5th Mounted Rifles (Imperial Light Horse)" in 1913. Reformed as an armoured regiment 1949; split into 1 LHR/2 LHR 1975 (Border War era), reamalgamated 1997. Renamed Johannesburg Light Horse Regiment 2019.
Notes
Son of Westerford and Dorothy Dallamore. Husband of Dorothy Edith Dallamore. His son died in service in WW2
Citations
***Submitted for War Grave Status to CWGC, awaiting acceptance
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