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Identity
Person No.
8093
Service No.
11213V
Last Name
Gibbens 1
First Name
James William
Initials
J W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1903 (±1 yr) 144
Age at Death
41
Death Record
Date of Death
17 July 1944 197
Cause code
POW 1,367
Died as prisoner of war
Cause of Death
Died as POW 169
Died whilst a POW
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Sergeant
Regiment
First City/Cape Town Highlanders 112
Formerly Cape Town Highlanders (1943)
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Italy 1,880
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
PADUA WAR CEMETERY 74
Grave Reference
I. D. 10. 1
Coordinates
45.42165, 11.83996 OSM
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes

Son of William and Hester M. Gibbens; husband of Kathleen Gibbens, of "Lower Chilton", Cathcart, Cape Province, South Africa. Born in Whittlesea and had 2 children. On Cathcart War Memorial.

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