Service Details
Name:
 SMITH
Given Name:
 PERCY HAROLD
Initials:
 P H
Service No:
 89857
Rank:
 Lance Bombardier
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Regiment:
 South African Artillery
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Unit:
 2 Field Regt.
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Date of Death:
 1942-06-20
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Date of Birth:
 1913-07-07
Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Tobruk, left wagon lines and tried to make the wounded more comfortable. While applying first aid he was killed by a machine gun bullet
Additional
Information:
Son of Percy W. R. and Alice M. Smith, of Umhlanga Rocks, Natal; husband of Esther Enodia Smith, of Bower Street, Brooklyn, Cape Town. Born in Fort Beaufort. A male nurse at the Town Hill Mental Hospital, Pietermaritzburg. His brother also died on service
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Column 114.

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