Service Details
Name:
 VAN ZYL
Given Name:
 DANIEL PETRUS WESSELS
Initials:
 D P W
Service No:
 MPO/114607
Rank:
 Major
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Regiment:
 South African Army
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Former Regiment:
 formerly South Africans Engineers in WW1
Date of Death:
 1952-05-25
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Date of Birth:
 1889-02-09
Age:
 63
Cause of Death:
 Died of coronary thrombosis, at Voortrekkerhoogte Military Hospital
Decorations:
 LG Sup 4 June 1917 pg. 5487
Additional
Information:
Husband of Mrs A van Zyl, of Langham St, Bronkhorstspruit. Born in the Orange Free State, he had been boarded Medically Unfit in 1946 with heart problems which he contracted on Active Service.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 THABA TSHWANE (OLD No.1) MILITARY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Grave 98

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