Identity
Person No.
9434
Service No.
172845
Last Name
First Name
Walter Blaikie
Initials
W B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
48
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
NAT 758
Natural causes
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Captain
Regiment
Royal Natal Carbineers 221
Later renamed
Natal Carbineers
(1961)
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
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Unit History
Attached To
Role at time of death
Infantry (1st Bn); 2nd Bn converted to armour 1939-45 as 6th Reconnaissance Regiment, SA Tank Corps (Egypt)
Status
Active Citizen Force
WWII-only split: 1st Battalion fought as infantry; 2nd Battalion converted to armour, later amalgamated with 4th Armoured Car Regiment as 4th/6th ACR. Not a permanent whole-regiment Corps change. No SADF-era (1974-92) brigade attachment found in available sources -- left unrecorded rather than guessed.
Notes
Son of the Hon. Mr. Justice Kenneth Howard Hathorn and Agnes Elizabeth Hathorn, of Pietermaritzburg; husband of Alice Rosamond Hathorn, of Loop Street, Pietermaritzburg. M.A. (Cantab.). LL.B. (South Africa). Advocate of South African Supreme Court. His brother died on service in WW1
Citations
LG Sup 20 December 1918 pg. 14936 as Lt. with 6 Dragoon Guards in WW1
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