Service Details
Name:
 PATON
Given Name:
 ATHOLL MASON
Initials:
 A M
Service No:
 4189
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces
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Unit:
 1st
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Date of Death:
 1940-12-16
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Date of Birth:
 1904-01-31
Age:
 36
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at the Italian border post of El Wak, on the northern Kenyan frontier with Italian Somaliland. While advancing on Durro Hachi, a group of huts within a thorn zariba, had to cross a clearing about half a mile wide under fairly hot enemy fire. The Regiment lost its first World War II casualty, in this otherwise successful clash.
Additional
Information:
Son of James and Eunice Warder Paton, of Bulwer Road, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa; husband of Mildred Grace Paton, of Deanery Lane, Pietermaritzburg. Born in Pietermaritzburg. A clerk.
Commemoration
Country:
 Kenya
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Cemetery:
 NAIROBI WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 2. H. 26.

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