Identity
Person No.
8731
Service No.
26750
Last Name
First Name
Mervyn Harold
Initials
M H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
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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 Mr. and Mrs. David Gregory; adopted son of Dorothy Wernich and ward of his stepbrother P. A. W. Wernich, of 22 Wootton Avenue, Benoni. Born in Pretoria. A bricklayer. He was unmarried.
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Stories 1
I believe I ended up with his service medal in my possesion,its engraved 4019 PTE. G.Chadwick W. Yorkshire Regi .... I have had it for years, bought it at a market on one of my visits to England. Can not find any contacts......
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