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Identity
Person No.
8908
Service No.
19725
Last Name
Gunn 5
First Name
Ivan
Initials
I
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1922 (±1 yr) 602
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
27 October 1942 173
Cause code
DOW 2,733
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds 2,435
Died of wounds, received in minefield, in the vicinity of El Alamein during the opening stages of the advance and attack. He was the Platoon Commander of No. 7 Platoon, "B" Coy
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lieutenant
Regiment
Cape Town Highlanders 73
Later renamed First City/Cape Town Highlanders (1943)
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,346
Unit
Unknown
Secondary Unit
"B" Coy.
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY 528
Grave Reference
III. C. 13. 1
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 OSM
Memorial
Memorial for South African soldiers who died at El Alamein, 1942. Photo: Farawayman, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_African_Memorial_El_Alamein.jpg)
Names on Grave
Memorial
El Alamein War Cemetery and Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Grave
On the panel
III. C. 13.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Part of
Infantry Formation (SAAIF) — Mechanised Infantry — Reserve
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes

Son of Mrs. Mona Gunn, of 18 Sutton Court Road, Sutton, Surrey, England. Born London. A bank clerk in Cape Town. He was unmarried.

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