Identity
Person No.
522
Service No.
78599
Last Name
First Name
John Walter
Initials
J W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,781
Killed in action
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Part of
Transvaal Scottish, formed 1902 after the Second Anglo-Boer War. Active Citizen Force infantry regiment through WWI, WWII (2nd/3rd Bns raised 1936/1939) and the Border War. Renamed Solomon Mahlangu Regiment 2019. Needs further research to break out exact era boundaries/role changes (e.g. 1953 and 1997 battalion amalgamations) as sources are found.
Notes
Son of George James and Ivy A. Andrew, of Brakpan, Transvaal, South Africa. Commemoration stone in Brakpan Cemetery
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