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Identity
Person No.
9034
Service No.
102183V
Last Name
Hall 36
First Name
Mitchell Barand
Initials
M B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1913 (±1 yr) 376
Age at Death
30
Death Record
Date of Death
10 September 1943 109
Cause code
AA 1,737
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in aircraft accident 1,517
Died in Aircraft Accident, bounced on landing, stalled, crashed, in Martin Baltimore Mk III #FA547
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Lieutenant
Regiment
15 Squadron 101
Corps
South African Air Force 3,524
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY 528
Grave Reference
XXVIII. H. 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
XXVIII. H. 13.
Unit History
Part of
Active squadrons
Notes

Son of Mitchell and Benetta Hall; husband of Margaret Hall, of Brakpan, Transvaal, South Africa.

Research notes


5 Sep 2026: Unit "15 Squadron" (a squadron, SAAF's regiment-equivalent) promoted to Regiment, per John's decision. Corps (South African Air Force) unchanged.

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