Identity
Person No.
9605
Service No.
34050
Last Name
First Name
William E
Initials
W E
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
26
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOAS 7,466
Died on active service
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Sapper
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Notes
Son of Peter and Gertrude Heiberg; husband of Marion E. Heiberg, of Pretoria.
Citations
Unknown
External References
Stories 1
3359, T. Cashell served and fell with the 2nd (Royal County Down) Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. He landed South Africa in 1899 as a Private in the Battalion. He was taken prisoner by the Boers during the disasterous engagement at Reddersburg on the 3rd to 4th April 1900. He, along with most of the captured Battalion, was subsequently released. At some point, he was promoted to Lance-Corp, only to succumb to disease Bloemfontein, 29th November 1901. He was awarded the Queens South Africa medal with clasps Orange Free State, Transvaal and Cape Colony (confirmed on medal roll). There is a corner of a foreign field....Lest We Forget. 'Quis Separabit'.
Dedications 1
A brave Rifleman that laid down his life in the Cause of Freedom. 'Quis Separabit' Philip Batt