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Identity
Person No.
4280
Service No.
31363
Last Name
First Name
James Daniel
Initials
J D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,733
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, received during the attack on Bardia on 31 December 1941
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
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 Samuel Robert and Dorothea Maria Collins (nee Venter), of Magoebas Kloof Hotel, Pietersburg, Transvaal. Born in Pietersburg. An assistant sampler on the State Mines in Brakpan, East Rand. He was unmarried.

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