Identity
Person No.
9697
Service No.
323
Last Name
First Name
Geoffery Leith Hamilton (bill)
Initials
G L H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died of cardiac failure whilst in a diabetic coma, at Roberts Heights Hospital
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Royal Natal Carbineers 221
Later renamed
Natal Carbineers
(1961)
Unit
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Unknown
Coordinates
Unit History
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
Part of
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 H. J. Hendry and Ivy E. Hendry, of Boshoff Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal. Born in Greytown, Natal. An articled clerk before the war.
Citations
Unknown
External References
Stories 1
Was married to Florence Amelia Plaice in the UK. his full name is William Lewis Champion, actually died on 13 Dec 1900 at Nooitgedacht, Transvaal, South Afica P. V.
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