Identity
Person No.
41483
Service No.
73557894
Last Name
First Name
Walter Eden Bethridge
Initials
W E B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
19
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SUIC 381
Suicide
Cause of Death
Commited suicide, hot himself in the chest with a R1 Rifle while on guard duty at Tower 5, 95 Ammunition Depot, Lenz. He was busy with a 3 week camp at the time
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Unit
Secondary Unit
"B" Squadron
Defence Force
SADF 3,815
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry (area defence)
Status
Commando (Area Bound Reserve)
Part of
SADF Commando System
category
Generic Regiment-field text used across hundreds of records whose actual unit is a specific local Commando (e.g. Rustenburg Commando, Boksburg Commando -- captured in Unit). Post-WWII, "Commando" is its own force-component category alongside Regular/Permanent Force and Active Citizen Force -- area-bound, part-time reserve units tied to a specific district, mobilised for local counter-insurgency/area protection duties during the Border War era. Not a single regiment; this Status applies to the whole category.
Notes
Son of Mr. A. L. Skinner, of 3rd Avenue, Northmead, Benoni. A fitter by trade.
Citations
***Accepted by CWGC for War Grave Status & burial site under investigation
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