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List updated May 1, 2017

Country Total = 9

9 graves in 2 cemeteries

Completed = 0 (or 0.0%)

Cemetery
SA War Dead #
SA serving in Non-SA units War Dead #
Rhodesia War Dead #
Total
Status - Complete, Underway, Part Done
Volunteer
Chittagong War Cemetery
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1
2
3
Complete
Andre Redman
Maynamati War Cemetery
1
.
5
6
.
.
Country Total
9

 

MAYNAMATI WAR CEMETERY

Maynamati is some 7 kilometres from the centre of Comilla, which is on the railway line linking Dhaka to Chittagong. It can be reached by train to Comilla railway station, 9 kilometres from the cemetery, or by the Dhaka - Chittagong highway. The cemetery is 1 kilometre down the road leading from Comilla to Sylinet and a short distance past the Cantonment Military Hospital. There is a C.W.G.C. road direction sign on a roundabout at the crossroad.

SPAFFORD, Lieutenant, ALAN LEONARD, 542789V. 99 Sqdn. South African Air Force. 21st January 1945. Age 31. Son of Leonard W. Spafford and Edith A. Spafford, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. B.A Coll. grave 3. D. 19

Rhodesia Units

DONALD, Private, RHO/1934. 1st Bn. Rhodesian African Rifles. 5th May 1945. 3. G. 7.

LABSON NYIRENDA, Corporal, NRA/11344. 3rd Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 30th April 1945. 3. F. 6.

SHICHIYONGO SHALOBA, Private, NRA/5438. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 29th December 1944. 1. E. 17.

SIMASIKU, Private, RHO/4193. 1st Bn. Rhodesian African Rifles. 12th June 1945. 4. A. 11.

SODA FINASI, Private, RHO/1306. 1st Bn. Rhodesian African Rifles. 9th November 1945. 2. D. 5.

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