Service Details
Name:
 PETLELA
Given Name:
 PIETER
Initials:
 P
Service No:
 N/6067
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 Native Military Corps, S.A. Forces
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Date of Death:
 1944-01-28
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Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Killed whilst a POW. On 28 January 1944 the United States Air Force bombed a POW train on a bridge near Allerona, Italy. It was carrying Allied servicemen from PG Camp 54, Fara in Sabina, to Germany
Additional
Information:
Son of Frans and Juniah Petlela, of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Column 164.

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