Service Details
Name:
 PLATT
Given Name:
 DENNIS ALFRED
Initials:
 D A
Service No:
 5037
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Natal Mounted Rifles, S.A. Forces
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Unit:
 1st
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Date of Death:
 1942-10-24
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Date of Birth:
 1915-12-12
Age:
 26
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, during attack of second battle of Alamein. In the face of heavy machinegun fire the South Africans stormed the strongpoint and after 15 minutes of desperate close quarter fighting they overcame the enemy resistance. The Natal Company [attached to the SA Field Force Battalion], like the FFB before it, suffered heavily - Lt. Dennis PLATT was killed.
Additional
Information:
Son of Cecil and Hilda Isobel Platt, of Isipingo, Natal. Husband of Pamela Helen (nee Leary) Platt. Born in Isipingo. A Sugar Planter and Miller by profession. Educated at Hilton College, Natal. Commemoration stone in Isipingo Cemetery, Kwazulu Natal.
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 XI. A. 29.

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