Identity
Person No.
8958
Service No.
27689V
Last Name
First Name
Walter Sidney
Initials
W S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
39
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SHOT 546
Shot
Cause of Death
Died in Shooting Incident, in battle accident, accidentally shot in the vicinity of Poggio, Italy
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry, later Mechanised Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Witwatersrand Rifles, formed 1 May 1903. Active Citizen Force regiment through WWI/WWII/Border War (1970-1994 Border War operations). Renamed Bambatha Rifles 2019. Needs further research on Regiment de la Rey naming/merger history.
Notes
Son of Walter and Edith Hackett; husband of Hilda Florence Hackett, of Park Street, Jeppe, Johannesburg, Transvaal. He was a French polisher by trade.
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