In Memory Of
WHITAKER, MAURICE EDWARD
Service Details
Age:
47
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
P/102886
Rank:
Lieutenant Colonel
Regiment:
South African Air Force
Date of Death:
1943-03-16
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, lost in the Empress of Canada which was torpedoed by the Italian Submarine Leonardo Da Vinci en route from Durban to Takoradi
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Column 277.
Cemetery:
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
Country:
Egypt
Additional Information
Son of Frederick and Louise M. Whitaker; husband of Enid Kate Whitaker, of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. Born England
