Service Details
Name:
 CLASSEN
Given Name:
 ALFRED HENRY
Initials:
 A H
Service No:
 SR/598337V
Rank:
 Trooper
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Regiment:
 Prince Alfred's Guard, S.A.Forces
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Unit 2:
 attd. 6th South African Armd. Div.
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Former Regiment:
 formerly Kimberley Regiment and Witswatersrand Rifles
Date of Death:
 1944-04-18
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Date of Birth:
 1921-12-01
Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Died in Military Vehicle Accident, when crushed by an overturned tank that was being prepared for transport to the Tel-el-Kebir Depot
Additional
Information:
Son of Lawrence James Classen and Johana Classen, of Plot 45, Rayemore, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. Born Cala, Cape Province. A miner. He was unmarried.
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 6. R. 2.

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