Service Details
Name:
 VEALL
Given Name:
 DENYS GURNEY
Initials:
 D G
Service No:
 230644V
Rank:
 Trooper
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Regiment:
 Pretoria Regiment, S.A. Forces
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Unit 2:
 "C" Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-08-02
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Date of Birth:
 1917-05-13
Age:
 27
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, by a sniper, about 2.5 km from Impruneta, Italy. While on a foot recce of the area, he was shot by an enemy sniper while busy cutting an enemy wire
Additional
Information:
Son of Edwin Vane and Frances Cornelia Veall, of "Olive Lodge", Harpford Avenue, Wynberg, Cape Town. Born Bathhurst, Cape Province. A traveling salesman. He was unmarried.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 XI. D. 6.

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