Identity
Person No.
5912
Service No.
32751V
Last Name
First Name
Manuel Solomon (aka Mannie Saul)
Initials
M S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
Forest Drive Extension, Pinelands, Cape Town
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry, later Mechanised Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Witwatersrand Rifles, formed 1 May 1903. Active Citizen Force regiment through WWI/WWII/Border War (1970-1994 Border War operations). Renamed Bambatha Rifles 2019. Needs further research on Regiment de la Rey naming/merger history.
Notes
Son of Joel Jacob and Ella Dorfan and brother of B. Dorfan, of Kinross, Mpumalanga. An articled clerk ***Jewish. Nephew Mannie Olswang made contact with SAWGP 6 June 2014.
Research notes
Colyn Brookes, Mibisa: Volume One – Western Cape (Lulu, 2013, ISBN 9781447682523): Castiglione South African Cemetery.
Citations
Unknown
External References
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MIBISA Volume One – Western Cape
open source ↗
Castiglione South African Cemetery
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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