In Memory Of

CARAPATA, CHARLES VICTOR FRANCIS

Service Details
Age:
 42
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 4062
Rank:
 Private
Unit:
 1st Regt.
Unit 2:
 "A" Coy.
Regiment:
 South African Infantry
Date of Death:
 1916-02-25
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Battle of Agagia, Egypt
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 57.
Cemetery:
 JERUSALEM MEMORIAL
Country:
 Israel
Additional Information
Son of Mrs. Lavinia Carapata; husband of Annie Johanna Jacoba Carapata, of 15, Flemming St., Cape Town, South Africa. Born 1874. Initially attested for the 2nd Infantry Regiment, The Duke of Edinburgh?s Own Rifles, on 8 October 1914, and embarked for the Northern Force (Walvis) per Galway Castle on 9 June 1915. Transferred to "A" Company of the 1st South African Infantry, Carapata was killed in action in an engagement with Turkish forces near Wath Makhl; his funeral was conducted a short while later by the Reverend P. J. Walshe, attached 2nd S.A.I., and his grave was marked with a wooden cross placed atop a sandhill.