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Identity
Person No.
6876
Service No.
21419
Last Name
Fairweather 6
First Name
Alexander
Initials
A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1916 (±1 yr) 485
Age at Death
26
Death Record
Date of Death
03 July 1942 149
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Killed in action
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Major
Regiment
Regiment President Steyn 30
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,346
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY 528
Grave Reference
XIX. F. 14. 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
XIX. F. 14.
Unit History
Part of
82 Mechanised Brigade
Notes

Son of Alexander and Margaret G. Fairweather, of Kroonstad, Orange Free State, South Africa.

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