Service Details
Name:
 WESTON
Given Name:
 GRANT EDMUND
Initials:
 G E
Service No:
 68498
Rank:
 Ordinary Seaman
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Regiment:
 South African Naval Forces
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Unit:
 H.M.S. Phoebe
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Date of Death:
 1941-08-27
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Date of Birth:
 1922-09-28
Age:
 18
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, hit by a torpedo from an Italian S79 torpedo bomber while covering troop transports to the besieged Tobruk
Additional
Information:
Son of Edmund Thomas and Gertrude Helena Weston, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Born Durban. On Kearsney College Roll of Honour
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 2. C. 13.

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