Identity
Person No.
9921
Service No.
1008
Last Name
First Name
William Brading
Initials
W B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
47
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DISCH 606
Died after discharge
Cause of Death
Died after discharge. Discharged 29 July 1942 as medically unfit
Military Service
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Reconnaissance
Status
Volunteer unit (pre-1913); Active Citizen Force (Reserve) from 1913
Part of
Lineage from the Royal Durban Rangers (1854) through several volunteer mounted units, unified as Natal Mounted Rifles 1888. Reactivated for the Boer War as Natal Mounted Infantry. Transferred to the Active Citizen Force 1913; converted from cavalry to armoured reconnaissance 1934. Renamed Queen Nandi Mounted Rifles 2019.
Notes
Son of William W. and Amy L. Hills; husband of Gladys Constance Hills and brother of Mabel Amy Millicent Hills, of Durban.
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