Identity
Person No.
10752
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Last Name
First Name
Paul Eldridge John
Initials
P E J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
17
Military Service
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause of Death
Died as a result of weakness due to exposure during service at sea
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Additional Information
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Son of John William and Edith Marion Eldridge Ives, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Born Bellicourt, Aisne, France on the 29th December, 1923. Educated at Yeoville Intermediate School, Johannesburg. In 1940 he joined the RNR as Temporary Midshipman, and was a survivor when the HMS Comorin, on which he was serving, was lost. He later went to the Naval College at Hove where he collapsed and died on the 29th May, 1941. Ex-cadet of the South African Training Ship General Botha.
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External Source
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South African War Graves Project