In Memory Of
TURPIN, ANTON ERNEST ALEXANDER
Service Details
Age:
24
Date of Birth:
1920-01-01
Service No:
8789V
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Regiment:
First City/Cape Town Highlanders, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
1944-05-10
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, while on a Recce patrol early in the morning of the 10th May
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
II. A. 10.
Cemetery:
CASSINO WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Italy
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.
