Service Details
Name:
 TURPIN
Given Name:
 ANTON ERNEST ALEXANDER
Initials:
 A E A
Service No:
 8789V
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
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Regiment:
 First City/Cape Town Highlanders, S.A. Forces
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Date of Death:
 1944-05-10
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Date of Birth:
 1920-01-01
Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, while on a Recce patrol early in the morning of the 10th May
Additional
Information:
Son of Andrew F. C. and Olina V. S. Turpin, of Bedford, Cape Province, South Africa. Educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown. On Bedford Town War Memorial, Eastern Cape. The Unit War Diary shows he died approx 0030hrs on the 11 May.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 CASSINO WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 II. A. 10.

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