Service Details
Name:
 WARNEKE
Given Name:
 CHARLES WILLIAM GEORGE
Initials:
 C W G
Service No:
 9739
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
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Regiment:
 South African Corps of Signals
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Unit:
 4th Bde. Sig. Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1945-02-24
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Age:
 30
Cause of Death:
 Died of malnutrition and gangrenous sores, whilst a POW, last seen alive in Leignitz, Germany
Additional
Information:
Son of William George and Lydia Elizabeth Warneke; husband of Winifred Catherine Warneke, of Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa. Born King William's Town. A service assistant at a garage. Captured at Tobruk on 20 June 1942
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Column 141.

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