Service Details
Name:
 DU PRE
Given Name:
 GERARD WILLIAM
Initials:
 G W
Service No:
 215614
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 26 Air School
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Date of Death:
 1943-12-06
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Age:
 27
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Airspeed AS.10 Oxford Mk I/II #3593, 3 crew (2 RAF), control lost during stall demonstration and crashed 10 miles west of Pietersburg
Additional
Information:
Son of Jacobus Martinus and Cecilia Johanna du Pre; husband of Nicoleen M. du Pre, of Andalusia. Commemoration stone in Pretoria (Rebecca Street) Cemetery. His brother also died in service
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Limpopo Province
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Cemetery:
 POLOKWANE (OR PIETERSBURG) CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Mil. Sec. Grave 8.

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