Identity
Person No.
8027
Service No.
8502
Last Name
First Name
Stanley
Initials
S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
27
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, during an attack in the vicinity of El Alamein, which began at 2200 hours
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
III. E. 25.
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 Mr. S. George, of Wingrove Road, Fenham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Husband of Mrs. Ena Maudine George, C/O Elton & Slabbert, Exploration Building, Commissioner Street, Johannesburg. Born in Darlington, England. A teacher by profession.
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