Service Details
Name:
 KNOTT
Given Name:
 GEORGE CUMMINGS
Initials:
 G C
Service No:
 8515
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 Natal Mounted Rifles, S.A. Forces
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Unit:
 1st
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Date of Death:
 1942-07-12
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Date of Birth:
 1902-01-21
Age:
 40
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, shrapnel wounds, received on 10 July when "B" and "C" Coys launched an attack, together with the Australians, on enemy (Italian) positions near El Alamein. He died 2 days later in hospital
Additional
Information:
Son of Kemp and Louisa Mary Knott. Husband of Margaret Joyce Knott, of Farm "Thorndale" Alice, Cape Province. Born Beaufort West area. A farmer. Commemoration stone in Knott Cemetery in Fish River Nature Reserve
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 XII. H. 3.

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