Service Details
Name:
 TIMM
Given Name:
 MAURICE BUTE
Initials:
 M B
Service No:
 136528V
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 First City/Cape Town Highlanders, S.A. Forces
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Date of Death:
 1944-05-16
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Date of Birth:
 1921-09-04
Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, own type 36 grenade thrown at a suspected enemy patrol in the Aquafondata area, Italy
Additional
Information:
Son of Owen Wreford Purdon and Emily (nee Sellor) Timm, of Trappes Valley, Cape Province, South Africa. Born Bathurst. Educated Kingswood College, Grahamstown where he has an award named after him, the "Maurice Timm Prize for Mathematics and Science". It is awarded to the Grade 12 pupil who gets the highest combined mark for Mathematics and Science. He achieved 5 A's in Matric now known as Grade 12. He taught his math teacher a way to work out a sum in a new way. He was an extremely intelligent young man through out his education. Commemorated on Kingswood College; the Clumber Church, Bathurst; the Shaw Park Methodist Church, Bathurst & the Grahamstown WWII Memorials
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 CASSINO WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 II. A. 6.

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