Service Details
Name:
 OOSTHUIZEN
Given Name:
 LOURENS DANIEL
Initials:
 L D
Service No:
 8236V
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 First City/Cape Town Highlanders, S.A. Forces
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Date of Death:
 1944-09-01
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Date of Birth:
 1910-09-18
Age:
 33
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, at 11:40 a.m. Oosthuizen with his Lieutenant and another soldier was sent to investigate the anti-personnel mines that had been placed by the South Africans themselves. The patrol accidentally detonated one and he was wounded. The Lieutenant was killed instantly. The event took place at the Medici Villa dell'Ambrogiana near the Arno river, which was then the seat of a psychiatric hospital
Additional
Information:
Son of Abel Hermanus and Hilda Magdalena Oosthuizen. Nephew of Mrs. M. Oosthuizen, of Despatch, Cape Province. Born Aberdeen, Cape Province.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 III. C. 17.

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