Service Details
Name:
 SPOONER
Given Name:
 BASIL FRANK
Initials:
 B F
Service No:
 53429V
Rank:
 Corporal
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Regiment:
 Special Service Battalion, S.A. Forces
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Former Regiment:
 THA
Date of Death:
 1944-07-25
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Date of Birth:
 1920-12-07
Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in the vicinity of Sillano. There were heavy engagements between "B" Squadron and 6 Tiger tanks and enemy anti-tank artillery
Additional
Information:
Son of Frank and Muriel Spooner, of 49 Goldman Street, Florida, Transvaal. Born Johannesburg. A clerk. He was unmarried. Commemoration stone in Johannesburg (Braamfontein) Cemetery Ash Walls
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 III. G. 4.

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