Service Details
Name:
 BALLENDEN
Given Name:
 CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM
Initials:
 C W
Service No:
 129862
Rank:
 Captain
Other Casualties of this Rank
Regiment:
 Royal Engineers
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Unit:
 attd. 2 Field Coy., West African Engineers, R.W.A.F.F.
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Date of Death:
 1945-03-17
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Date of Birth:
 1916-09-26
Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Letmauk, Burma
Decorations:
 M C and bar, Mentioned in Despatches
Citations:
 MC LG 28 February 1941; Bar to MC LG Sup 21 October 1941 pg. 6085, MID LG Sup 9 May 1946 pg. 2212
Additional
Information:
Son of William Christopher and Joan (nee Cowley) Ballenden, of Fernbank, Hilton Road, Natal. Husband of Daphne (nee Hall) Ballenden. Born Pietermaritzburg. Educated Hilton College and Wits University College. A mining engineering student at Wits before enlistment. Proceeded to England in September 1939 and joined the Officer Training Corps. Awarded the MC at El Wak and the Bar in Italian Somaliland. ref. UK, Army Roll of Honour, 1939-1945. Commemorated on Hilton College, Wits University College and Greytown, Natal WWII Memorials
Commemoration
Country:
 Myanmar
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Cemetery:
 TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 12. D. 4.

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