Identity
Person No.
7554
Service No.
2872V
Last Name
First Name
Desmond Seale Graham
Initials
D S G
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
26
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, at Monte Pulciano, Italy. The "A" Squadron truck they were traveling in struck a mine
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Trooper
Regiment
Unit
Secondary Unit
"A" Coy.
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
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Coordinates
Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Reconnaissance
Status
Volunteer unit (pre-1913); Active Citizen Force (Reserve) from 1913
Part of
Lineage from the Royal Durban Rangers (1854) through several volunteer mounted units, unified as Natal Mounted Rifles 1888. Reactivated for the Boer War as Natal Mounted Infantry. Transferred to the Active Citizen Force 1913; converted from cavalry to armoured reconnaissance 1934. Renamed Queen Nandi Mounted Rifles 2019.
Notes
Son of Isadore Stanley and Dorothy Marjorie (Allardice) Frank, of Laurel Road, Durban, Natal. Born in Durban. A storeman by profession. Attended Glenwood High School, Durban. He had received training as a Signaller and was transferred from the 6 Arm Div Signal Squadron to the NMR in June 1943.
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