Service Details
Name:
 BOTHA
Given Name:
 JACOBUS PETRUS
Initials:
 J P
Service No:
 590555V
Rank:
 Private
Other Casualties of this Rank
Regiment:
 Witwatersrand Rifles/Regiment de la Rey, S.A. Forces
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Date of Death:
 1945-01-29
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Date of Birth:
 1924-08-24
Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, received while his patrol was ambushed near Serra, Italy on the 28th January. He could not be reached by the patrol and could not walk. The enemy was seen to move him to a nearby house. It was later ascertained that he had died the next day
Additional
Information:
Son of Karel Jacobus and Susanna Elizabeth Botha. Brother-in-law of Mr. W. J. de Klerk, of Van Riebeeck Street, Hercules, Pretoria. Born Pretoria
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 BOLOGNA WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 I. A. 1.

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