Service Details
Name:
 WOOD
Given Name:
 MAURICE JASPER
Initials:
 M J
Service No:
 6490V
Rank:
 Corporal
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Regiment:
 Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces
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Former Regiment:
 formerly Natal Mounted Rifles, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
 1944-12-05
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Date of Birth:
 1907-06-29
Age:
 37
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, during an enemy ambush while accompanying a mule train transporting bombs from La Quercia to the Palazzo area, in Italy
Additional
Information:
Son of John Braby and Agnes Mary Wood, of Lauth Road, Pinetown, Natal. Born Crawley, West Sussex, England. A Trade Reference Reporter. He was unmarried and had 2 brothers. Commemoration stone in Pinetown (St. John's) Cemetery, Kwazulu Natal. On Pinetown, Kwazulu Natal Memorial
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 CASTIGLIONE SOUTH AFRICAN CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 II, F, 22.

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