In Memory Of
BLATT, PIETER ANDRIES
Service Details
Age:
23
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
581173V
Rank:
Lieutenant
Unit:
34 Sqdn.
Regiment:
South African Air Force
Date of Death:
1945-04-04
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, Liberator B.VI KK302, 8 crew (1 RAF), after returning from a bombing raid on the Brescia marshalling yards in Northern Italy, Liberator collided with an RAF Wellington bomber KL355 from 70 Sqdn while circling Celone airfield to land
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
XIII. B. 3.
Cemetery:
BARI WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Italy
Additional Information
Son of Pieter Andries and Davina Jacoba Susanna Blatt, of Malmesbury, Cape Province, South Africa.
