Service Details
Name:
 FRANK
Given Name:
 DESMOND SEARLE GRAHAM
Initials:
 D S G
Service No:
 2872V
Rank:
 Trooper
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Regiment:
 Natal Mounted Rifles, S.A. Forces
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Unit:
 1st Bn.
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Unit 2:
 "A" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1944-07-01
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Date of Birth:
 1918-07-16
Age:
 26
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Monte Pulciano, Italy. The "A" Sqdn truck they were traveling in struck a mine
Additional
Information:
Son of Isadore Stanley and Dorothy Marjorie (Allardice) Frank, of Laurel Road, Durban, Natal. Born Durban. A storeman. Educated Glenwood High School, Durban. He had received training as a Signaller and was transferred from the 6 Arm Div Signal Sqdn to the NMR in June 1943.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 FOIANO DELLA CHIANA WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 I. O. 5.

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