Service Details
Name:
 GUEST
Given Name:
 IVOR ARTHUR MELVILLE
Initials:
 I A M
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Cape Corps
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Unit:
 1st
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Former Regiment:
 formerly Witwatersrand Rifles in the South West African campaign
Date of Death:
 1917-11-06
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Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Mkungu (Lindi Area), while checking the advance of a vastly superior enemy force. His gun crew had become casualties and he was handling the gun himself when he was killed.
Additional
Information:
Son of H. N. and L. C. Guest; husband of Bertha Anne Guest, of Waterbury Rd., Plumstead, Cape Province, South Africa. Born at Klerksdorp, Transvaal, South Africa. His nephews both died in service in WW2
Commemoration
Country:
 Tanzania
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Cemetery:
 DAR ES SALAAM WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 6. F. 10.

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