Service Details
Name:
BANTJES
Given Name:
JAN GERRIT
Initials:
J G
Service No:
65616658PE
Trade:
LWT Commander
Rank:
Sergeant
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Regiment:
South African Technical Services Corps
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Unit:
1 South African Infantry Battalion
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Date of Death:
1976-12-07
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Date of Birth:
1948-08-04
Age:
28
Cause of Death:
Died in Freak Accident, while attempting to make a 20 mm shell safe and it exploded, at Bloemfontein
Additional
Information:
Son of Jacobus Petrus and Elfrieda Helene (nee Forster) Bantjes, of Eikenhof. He was unmarried.
Commemoration
Country:
South Africa
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Locality:
Gauteng
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Cemetery:
ELANDSFONTEIN FARM CEMETERY, EIKENHOF DISTRICT
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