Service Details
Name:
 MACKAY
Given Name:
 WILLIAM MURDOCK
Initials:
 W M
Service No:
 19179
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 Cape Town Highlanders, S.A. Forces
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Date of Death:
 1942-06-13
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Date of Birth:
 1913-08-14
Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, by a direct artillery hit on his slit trench at Eluet-et-Tamar, Gazala, Libya
Additional
Information:
Son of John Albert and Florence Ann Mackay, of 2 Frank Robb Street, Brooklyn, Cape Town. Husband of Catherina Priscilla Mackay, of 134 Buitenkant Street, Cape Town. Born Kimberley, Cape Province. A barman. He had 1 child.
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Column 126.

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