Service Details
Name:
 VAN BREDA
Given Name:
 WILLEM BREDA
Initials:
 W B
Service No:
 32805V
Rank:
 Corporal
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Regiment:
 Witwatersrand Rifles/Regiment de la Rey, S.A. Forces
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Date of Death:
 1944-11-07
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Date of Birth:
 1920-01-21
Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, shrapnel wounds on his thigh and leg, received on 6 November during shelling by a light howitzer while on a B Coy forward patrol near Mount Sterlese, Italy
Additional
Information:
Son of Johannes R. and Emma van Breda, of Arcadia Street, Pretoria, Transvaal. Born in Louis Trichardt, Transvaal.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 CASTIGLIONE SOUTH AFRICAN CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 II. A. 15.

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