Service Details
Name:
LYNSKY
Given Name:
PATRICK JAMES
Initials:
P J
Service No:
SAP/196093
Rank:
Lance Corporal
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Regiment:
South African Police
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Unit:
1
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Former Regiment:
South African Police Constable #12098
Date of Death:
1943-12-08
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Age:
37
Cause of Death:
Died as a POW, whilst being loaded onto railway wagons to be transported to Germany, the rail yards at Aquila were bombed by USAF B-25 bombers. About 200 POWs were killed, all who were trapped in locked cattle cars.
Additional
Information:
Son of Patrick James and Anna Catharina Lynsky; husband of Elizabeth Mary Lynsky, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
Egypt
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Cemetery:
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
Column 148.

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