In Memory Of
PATON, ATHOLL MASON
Service Details
Age:
36
Date of Birth:
1904-01-31
Service No:
4189
Rank:
Sergeant
Unit:
1st
Regiment:
Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
1940-12-16
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, at the Italian border post of El Wak, on the northern Kenyan frontier with Italian Somaliland. While advancing on Durro Hachi, a group of huts within a thorn zariba, had to cross a clearing about half a mile wide under fairly hot enemy fire. The Regiment lost its first World War II casualty, in this otherwise successful clash.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
2. H. 26.
Cemetery:
NAIROBI WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Kenya
Additional Information
Son of James and Eunice Warder Paton, of Bulwer Road, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa; husband of Mildred Grace Paton, of Deanery Lane, Pietermaritzburg. Born in Pietermaritzburg. A clerk.
