Service Details
Name:
 PLACE
Given Name:
 CHARLES ERNEST
Initials:
 C E
Service No:
 41003V
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Armoured Corps
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Unit 2:
 seconded to 8th Bn. Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
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Date of Death:
 1944-09-14
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Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Additional
Information:
Son of Charles Place (fought in France at Delville Wood in WW1) and Mary Jane Place nee Hickman. From Peter Place 5 March 2014 - My dad, John Robert Place (born November 16th, 1909) was his elder brother. I believe that he, like my Dad was born in the UK and after his father died c.1920 from the effects of WW1 gas traveled with his mother and my father to SA and lived in the Green Point/Sea Point area of Cape Town.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 CORIANO RIDGE WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 XVII. L. 6.

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