Service Details
Name:
 WHITECROSS
Given Name:
 BARTLETT WALLACE
Initials:
 B W
Service No:
 136642
Rank:
 Private
Other Casualties of this Rank
Regiment:
 Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces
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Unit:
 1st
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Former Regiment:
 formerly First City/Cape Town Highlanders, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
 1942-07-27
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Date of Birth:
 1921-06-25
Age:
 21
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in an operation in the vicinity of El Alamein. The Regiment had been tasked to lift an enemy minefield to create a gap for 69 Bde and an Armoured Bde to pass through. Casualties were inflicted by severe MG fire and artillery bombardment
Additional
Information:
Son of Bartlett Bonniman Whitecross, of Fort Beaufort and Mabel Iris van der Vyver (formerly Whitecross), of Garcia Street, Cambridge, East London. Born in Pretoria. A baker.
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 IV. H. 27.

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