Service Details
Name:
 SANSOM
Given Name:
 BASIL REGINALD JAMES
Initials:
 B R J
Service No:
 215169
Rank:
 Sapper
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Regiment:
 South African Engineer Corps
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Date of Death:
 1942-11-28
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Date of Death 2:
 1942-11-29
Date of Birth:
 1898-06-10
Age:
 44
Cause of Death:
 Lost at sea on S. S. Nova Scotia, torpedoed and sunk by U-177. En route from Aden to Durban, South Africa. Carrying 6 passengers, 11 military and naval personnel, 134 South African guards and 765 Italian civil internees
Additional
Information:
Son of Arthur Edward and Clarice Marie Helme (nee Maeder) Sansom; husband of Alice Clara Sansom, of Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa. Born Beaufort West. A timekeeper with South African Railways
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Column 141.

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