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Identity
Person No.
8920
Service No.
8626V
Last Name
Gush 3
First Name
Ronald Gurney
Initials
R G
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1911 (±1 yr) 281
Age at Death
33
Death Record
Date of Death
22 June 1944 108
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Killed in action, during the attack on Chiusi, Italy
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
First City/Cape Town Highlanders 112
Formerly Cape Town Highlanders (1943)
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,346
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Italy 1,880
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
FOIANO DELLA CHIANA WAR CEMETERY 66
Grave Reference
I. N. 1. 1
Coordinates
43.2619, 11.82189 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 Joseph John Gurney and Margaret Eliza Gush, of Sidbury, Cape Province, South Africa. Commemoration stone in Sidbury Methodist Church Cemetery, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape

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