Service Details
Name:
 BEUKES
Given Name:
 LEONHARD VON SOLMS
Initials:
 L V S
Service No:
 47891V
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 31 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-10-13
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Age:
 26
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Liberator B24J Mk VI #KG875, 8 crew (1 RAF and 3 RAFVR), during Partisan supply drop in Northern Italy, crashed into mountain at Valprato Soana at night in poor weather
Additional
Information:
Son of Mattheus J. H. and Martha Beukes; husband of Susanna Maria Beukes, of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 MILAN WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave I. B. 4.

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