Service Details
Name:
 DU PLESSIS
Given Name:
 GIDEON STEPHANUS RETIEF
Initials:
 G S R
Rank:
 Gunner
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Regiment:
 South African Artillery
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Date of Death:
 1938-12-05
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Age:
 21
Cause of Death:
 Died of injuries, head injuries received when he fell from from a horse during artillery practice and the horses and cannon passed over him, at Voortrekkerhoogte Military Hospital
Additional
Information:
Son of David Francois and Johanna Sophia Coetzee du Plessis. Born Cape Province. He was unmarried.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 THABA TSHWANE (OLD No.1) MILITARY CEMETERY
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