Identity
Person No.
6485
Service No.
243359
Last Name
First Name
John Henry
Initials
J H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, during the attack on Bardia on the 31 December 1941. He was initially reported missing, presumed dead, but his body was later found and his date of death recorded as the 7 January. There was no fighting in the area on the 7 January as it was already in Allied hands
Military Service
Location
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Locality
Unknown
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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 Ernest and Violet Alice Edwards, of Clarendon Home, St Georges Street, Durban. Husband of Lorraine Edwards, of Faylands, Yetta Street, Hillbrow, Johannesburg. Born in Durban. A miner.
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