Identity
Person No.
8377
Service No.
15000
Last Name
First Name
Max
Initials
M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
31
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, in the vicinity of El Makh Khad during the opening stages of the advance and attack at El Alamein
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Cape Town Highlanders 73
Later renamed
First City/Cape Town Highlanders
(1943)
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
III. H. 19.
Memorial
Memorial
Location
Forest Drive Extension, Pinelands, Cape Town
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Part of
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes
Son of Meyer H. Goodman, of "Esters Haven", Kloof Nek Road, Cape town. Born Observatory. A clerk. He was unmarried. ***Jewish.
Research notes
Colyn Brookes, Mibisa: Volume One – Western Cape (Lulu, 2013, ISBN 9781447682523): El Alamein War Cemetery III. H. 19.
Citations
Unknown
External References
-
MIBISA Volume One – Western Cape
open source ↗
El Alamein War Cemetery III. H. 19
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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