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Identity
Person No.
4318
Service No.
14869V
Last Name
Combrink 14
First Name
John Peter Hendry
Initials
J P H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1920 (±1 yr) 678
Age at Death
24
Death Record
Date of Death
22 October 1944 150
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Killed in action, by a mortar bombardment on their positions near Campiaro
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
First City/Cape Town Highlanders 112
Formerly Cape Town Highlanders (1943)
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,343
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,808
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Italy 1,880
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
CASTIGLIONE SOUTH AFRICAN CEMETERY 401
Grave Reference
I, A, 9. 1
Coordinates
44.14397, 11.16183 OSM
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes

Brother of Mrs. D. Holloway, of Observatory, Cape Town. Commemoration stone in Cape Town (Maitland) Cemetery

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