Identity
Person No.
9347
Service No.
221538
Last Name
First Name
Geoffrey Charles
Initials
G C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
35
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,733
Died of wounds
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Locality
Unknown
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Part of
Transvaal Scottish, formed 1902 after the Second Anglo-Boer War. Active Citizen Force infantry regiment through WWI, WWII (2nd/3rd Bns raised 1936/1939) and the Border War. Renamed Solomon Mahlangu Regiment 2019. Needs further research to break out exact era boundaries/role changes (e.g. 1953 and 1997 battalion amalgamations) as sources are found.
Notes
Son of Sidney Osborn and Catherine Carter Hart-Davis. Husband of Margaret Mary Hart-Davis, of Webber, Germiston. Jumbo Hart-Davis was one of Durban's all round sportsmen, played Rugby for Wanderers in the days when they were winning great successes on the Rugby field, and representing Natal in the cricket field. He played for Natal against Captain R. T. Stanyforth's MCC team in 1928 and was responsible for the dismissal of Herbert Sutcliffe for a duck in the game played at Maritzburg, when he caught England's opening batsman off the bowling of Frank Smith. Two of his brothers, Jack and Chummie, both played Rugby for Natal.
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