Service Details
Name:
 WESSELS
Given Name:
 JAN PEN
Initials:
 J P
Service No:
 68558154PM
Trade:
 Instructor
Rank:
 Major
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 85 Combat Flying School
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Date of Death:
 1985-05-22
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Date of Birth:
 1949-02-15
Age:
 36
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Dassault Mirage IIID2Z #848, crashed 5 km west of Munnik Road, 34 km from Pietersburg. He was the instructor on a training flight
Additional
Information:
Husband of Mrs. Elizabeth Elsie Wessels, of General Botha Street, Welgelegen, Pietersburg.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Limpopo Province
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Cemetery:
 POLOKWANE (OR PIETERSBURG) CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Gravestone is a giant Mirage 111 RZ about 1 meter in diameter

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