Service Details
Name:
 TORR
Given Name:
 JACK EVAN
Initials:
 J E
Service No:
 9507
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 Die Middelandse Regiment, S.A. Forces
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Date of Death:
 1943-04-24
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Date of Birth:
 1917-03-20
Age:
 26
Cause of Death:
 Died of septicemia, following an cutaneous anthrax infection of the neck, in Foggia Military Hospital, whilst a POW. He had been captured on 15 June 1942 and shipped to Italy
Additional
Information:
Son of Norman Edwin and Gladys Lucy Torr (nee Nicholas), of "Ossa", Lady Grey, Cape Province. Born in Queenstown. A clerk at the Dordrecht Standard Bank. He was unmarried.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 BARI WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 XV. C. 21.

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