Identity
Person No.
8093
Service No.
11213V
Last Name
First Name
James William
Initials
J W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
41
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
POW 1,367
Died as prisoner of war
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Sergeant
Regiment
First City/Cape Town Highlanders 112
Formerly
Cape Town Highlanders
(1943)
Unit
Unknown
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
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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