Identity
Person No.
8947
Service No.
17868
Last Name
First Name
George Douglas
Initials
G D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died of endocarditis, at Roberts Heights Military Hospital. This was detected late in 1941 and he was returned to the Union from the Middle East
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
Grave Reference
Coordinates
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 Pieter Jacobus and Georgina Elizabeth Haarhoff, of 10 Gordons Avenue, Seaforth, Simonstown, Cape Province. Born Cape Town. A handyman. He was unmarried.
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