Identity
Person No.
4202
Service No.
106148V
Last Name
First Name
Nathan Anthony
Initials
N A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
28
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, near San Giovanni by a shell besides his armoured car while eating. 3 of the 4 crew were killed, Jerome Thorpe survived
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
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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
Son of Abraham Cohen and Leah Lily Aslwang (Cohen), of Cape Town. From Malmesbury, South Africa. He escaped POW camp at Tobruk in 1942 and gave up the chance to become a Corporal so he could go to Italy. Owner of personal gear found them in a suitcase in his old house' garage. He petitioned the SA government in 1999 to issue his medals as they were not awarded to him posthumously. A clerk for the SAR&H in Windhoek, South West Africa. ***Jewish
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