Service Details
Name:
 EVANS
Given Name:
 DEREK WILLIAM
Initials:
 D W
Service No:
 79386769PE
Rank:
 Candidate Officer
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 Combat Flight School
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Date of Death:
 1982-01-07
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Date of Birth:
 1963-05-26
Age:
 18
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, AT-6 Harvard #7651, while on a solo flight at Dunnottar, lost control and crashed between Endicott and Delmas
Additional
Information:
Son of Professor W. B. D. I. Evans. ref. 85 years of SAAF
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA
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Grave Reference:
 Cremated - Ashes scattered at the crash site

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