In Memory Of

TIMM, MAURICE BUTE

Service Details
Age:
 22
Date of Birth:
 1921-09-04
Service No:
 136528V
Rank:
 Private
Regiment:
 First City/Cape Town Highlanders, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
 1944-05-16
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, own type 36 grenade thrown at a suspected enemy patrol in the Aquafondata area, Italy
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 II. A. 6.
Cemetery:
 CASSINO WAR CEMETERY
Country:
 Italy
Additional Information
Son of Owen Wreford Purdon and Emily (nee Sellor) Timm, of Trappes Valley, Cape Province, South Africa. Educated at Kingswood College in Grahamstown where he has an award named after him, the "Maurice Timm Prize for Mathematics and Science". It is awarded to the Grade 12 pupil who gets the highest combined mark for Mathematics and Science. He achieved 5 A's in Matric now known as Grade 12. He taught his math teacher a way to work out a sum in a new way. He was an extremely intelligent young man through out his education.