Service Details
Name:
 TABERER
Given Name:
 TRAVERS CHARLES MELVILLE
Initials:
 T C M
Service No:
 201496
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 South African Reserve Mechanical Transport
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Unit:
 107 Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1943-07-07
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Age:
 45
Cause of Death:
 Died of thrombosis, whilst a POW, at POW Camp P.G. 47
Decorations:
 D S O
Citations:
 DSO WW1 with Hampshire Regiment as a 2nd Lt. LG 23 April 1918 - "For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when in command of his company after the company commander had been killed. Seeing, however, that part of the company detailed for the final objective had become disorganized owing to heavy casualties, on his own initiative he led forward his own company and captured and consolidated the final objective."
Additional
Information:
Son of Harry and Ethel Taberer; husband of Edith J. Taberer, of Johannesburg, Transaval, South Africa. Educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape and Hilton College, Natal
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 MILAN WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 V. A. 14.

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