Identity
Person No.
7760
Service No.
30838
Last Name
First Name
Thomas Herbert
Initials
T H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MIA 785
Missing in action
Cause of Death
Missing in action, after a night patrol. Under Capt Pyne-Mercier, encountered an enemy position in the vicinity of Nezuit Guafel and after a short engagement, withdrew. Fulton was one of the 6 patrol members who did not return
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Column 120.
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 Thomas and Gladys Winifred Fulton, of 223a, Fox Street, Johannesburg. Born in Johannesburg. An apprentice Iron Moulder. He was unmarried.
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