Identity
Person No.
7555
Service No.
1357
Last Name
First Name
Geoffrey George
Initials
G G
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,733
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, grenade splinter wounds and pneumonia whilst a POW. He was captured in the vicinity of Tobruk/El Gazala on 7 June
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
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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 John George and Daisy Elizabeth Frank, of Newhaven Road, Durban, Natal, South Africa. Born in Durban. A clerk by profession. Originally buried in Tmini Cemetery.
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