Service Details
Name:
 CARTER
Given Name:
 LEONARD ANTONY EYLES
Initials:
 L A E
Service No:
 5071
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 Natal Mounted Rifles, S.A. Forces
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Unit:
 1st
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Unit 2:
 "C" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1941-07-29
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Date of Birth:
 1915-09-01
Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 Died as a result of an accidental explosion of a detonator, at Mersa Matruh, Egypt
Additional
Information:
Son of Frank and Johanna Sushannah (nee Havemann) Carter, of St. Winifreds, South Coast, Natal, South Africa. Born Greytown. Educated Warner Beach Primary, Durban High School; Natal University College. A clerk. Member of the AECI Club, Umbogintwini. Leonard Carter Road in Warner Beach is named in his memory. Commemorated on AECI Umbogintwini; the Natal Mounted Rifles; the Durban High School; Natal University College & the Durban Cenotaph WWII Memorials
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 XXVIII. J. 23.

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