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Identity
Person No.
13815
Service No.
191223
Last Name
Longbottom 2
First Name
Richard Ambler William
Initials
R A W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1890 (±1 yr) 417
Age at Death
52
Death Record
Date of Death
21 July 1942 110
Cause code
DOAS 7,466
Died on active service
Cause of Death
Died on active service 6,447
Died on active service
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Sapper
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Engineer Corps 743
Later renamed South African Corps of Engineers
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY 528
Grave Reference
XIII. A. 21. 1
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 OSM
Memorial
Memorial for South African soldiers who died at El Alamein, 1942. Photo: Farawayman, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_African_Memorial_El_Alamein.jpg)
Names on Grave
Memorial
El Alamein War Cemetery and Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Grave
On the panel
XIII. A. 21.
Notes

Son of Rigby S. and Agnes S. L. A. Longbottom, of Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa; husband of Elizabeth Longbottom, of Port Elizabeth.

Citations
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Dedications 1
on 12 January 2007 · via source
Sgt. Fitzroy was propbably an ancestor of mine, since, on my mother's side, I know of a link to a British soldier, remaining behind after ABW2 to marry an Afrikaans speaking girl. My uncle and nephew are called James & George Horatio Fitzroy Rev. PH Berrang?