Identity
Person No.
9709
Service No.
26405
Last Name
First Name
Alwyn Petrus
Initials
A P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
ACC 1,595
Accident
Cause of Death
Died of injuries, fractured femur and skull fracture. Picked up off the roadside, in the Alexandria area, on 20 October 1941. Although the No. 8 General Hospital tried to save his leg, it was amputated on 18 March and he died later the day at 22:10 Hrs, according to the Hospital Record Card
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
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Coordinates
Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Car
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Formed 21 September 1899 as the Imperial Light Horse (Second Boer War). Volunteer unit in the Transvaal Volunteers 1902-1913, then transferred to the Active Citizen Force as "5th Mounted Rifles (Imperial Light Horse)" in 1913. Reformed as an armoured regiment 1949; split into 1 LHR/2 LHR 1975 (Border War era), reamalgamated 1997. Renamed Johannesburg Light Horse Regiment 2019.
Notes
Son of Anna M. Henning, of 55 Pan Road, La Rochelle, Johannesburg. Born in Johannesburg. An Office worker. He was unmarried.
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