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About Lt.Col. Guy Edmund L'Estrange, DSO, VD
Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Edmund L'Estrange (1888-1975). South African Military Forces, service number 1454. Distinguished Service Order awarded (Repatriated PoWs: SA forces, Tobruk). Railhead Force, North African Campaign, World War II.
Marriage record: "South Africa, Natal Province, Civil Marriages, 1845-1955," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDCB-Q13 : 27 December 2014), Guy Edmund L'Estrange and Alice Katherine Grace Arbuthnot, 23 Sep 1914; citing Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa; 01727; National Archives and Records Service of South Africa, Pretoria; 1,796,224.
Led a small force or column known as "Guycol" at Tobruk and got taken prisoner there in June 1942. He would subsequently have been taken to an Italian POW camp, and his medals record at the archives shows POW repatriation: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7376154. The Geni SA WW2 POW project shows that he was in the transit camp at Bari (Italy) known as PG75 Torre Tresca.
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Lt.Col. Guy Edmund L'Estrange, DSO, VD's Timeline
| 1888 |
July 8, 1888
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KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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| 1916 |
August 15, 1916
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Durban, Durban Metro, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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| 1920 |
December 4, 1920
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KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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| 1930 |
December 13, 1930
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Pietermaritzburg, Indlovu DC, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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| 1975 |
March 20, 1975
Age 86
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Pietermaritzburg, Indlovu DC, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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March 24, 1975
Age 86
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New Hanover, Indlovu DC, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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