Service Details
Name:
 PACKER
Given Name:
 DOUGLAS OSBORN
Initials:
 D O
Service No:
 6157
Rank:
 Trooper
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Regiment:
 Natal Mounted Rifles, S.A. Forces
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Unit:
 1st Bn.
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Unit 2:
 "A" Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-07-17
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Date of Birth:
 1922-04-06
Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, wounded on the 17th July, shrapnel wound to the head, during the advance of "A" Sqdn between Radda and Verline, Italy, but died later the same day and was temporarily buried along the roadside at Ossaia, Italy. He was later moved to the Assisi War Cemetery.
Additional
Information:
Son of Osborn and Florence Violet Packer, of Harding, Natal, South Africa. Born in Kokstad, East Griqualand. A blockman by profession
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 ASSISI WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 V, B, 2.

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