Service Details
Name:
 WOLFAARDT
Given Name:
 JOSEPHINE (JOYCE)
Initials:
 J
Service No:
 W/158898
Trade:
 Miss
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Women's Auxiliary Army Services, S.A. Forces
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Date of Death:
 1945-07-07
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Date of Death 2:
 1945-07-08
Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Died of cyanide asphyxia. Was on weekend pass and returned on the Sunday evening. The bungalow was fumigated over the weekend and no signs were put up. She went to sleep and just never woke up.
Additional
Information:
Daughter of Gabriel Jacobus and Rachel Catherina Wolfaardt, of P.O. Gansbaai, Hermanus, Cape Province. ***CWGC has Joyce on headstone
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 THABA TSHWANE (NEW) MILITARY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Grave 95.

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