Service Details
Name:
HOLDCROFT
Given Name:
GEORGE ERNEST
Initials:
G E
Service No:
240808
Rank:
Major
Other Casualties of this Rank
Regiment:
South African Engineer Corps
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Date of Death:
1942-11-28
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Date of Death 2:
1942-11-29
Age:
49
Cause of Death:
Lost at sea on S. S. Nova Scotia, torpedoed and sunk by U-177. En route from Aden to Durban, South Africa. Carrying 6 passengers, 11 military and naval personnel, 134 South African guards and 765 Italian civil internees
Additional
Information:
Son of Joseph and Annie Elizabeth Holdcroft, of Parktown, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown. His brother also died on service. Commemoration stone in Johannesburg (Brixton) Cemetery.
Commemoration
Country:
Egypt
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Cemetery:
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
Column 138.

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