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Identity
Person No.
5194
Service No.
9711
Last Name
Dawson 25
First Name
Leonard Rishworth
Initials
L R
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1906 (±1 yr) 209
Age at Death
36
Death Record
Date of Death
26 October 1942 151
Cause code
DOW 2,733
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds 2,435
Died of wounds
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Engineer Corps 742
Later renamed South African Corps of Engineers
Unit
2 Field Coy. 11
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY 528
Grave Reference
V. H. 26. 1
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 OSM
Memorial
Memorial for South African soldiers who died at El Alamein, 1942. Photo: Farawayman, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_African_Memorial_El_Alamein.jpg)
Names on Grave
Memorial
El Alamein War Cemetery and Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Grave
On the panel
V. H. 26.
Notes

Son of Frank Donald and Maud Grace Dawson. Husband of Josephine Ann Dawson, of Selborne Estate, District Uitenhage. Born Simla, India. A farmer.

Citations
Unknown
External References
Stories 1
by Killed in Action John Dovey on 30 May 2001 · via source
Killed in Action John Dovey dovey.john@gmail.com 2001-05-30 13:37:59
Dedications

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