Name: |
LOGIE |
Given Name: |
ERIC LANGLEY |
Initials: |
E L |
Service No: |
185721 |
Rank: |
PrivateOther Casualties of this Rank |
Regiment: |
South African Reserve Mechanical Transport |
Unit: |
1stOther Casualties from this Unit |
Date of Death: |
1940-12-16Other Casualties on this
Date |
Age: |
31 |
Cause of Death: |
Killed in action, at the Italian border post of El Wak, on the northern Kenyan frontier with Italian Somaliland. While advancing on El Buro Hachi, a group of huts within a thorn zariba, had to cross a clearing about half a mile wide under fairly hot enemy fire. |
Additional Information: |
Son of Ronald J. Logie and Agnes E. Logie; husband of Iris V. Logie, of Coombs, Cape Province, South Africa. On Grahamstown Cathedral Parish Church memorial. |
This information was last verified for accuracy: 2014-01-17