Service Details
Name:
DE BRUYN
Given Name:
JACOBUS ENGENATIUS
Initials:
J E
Service No:
181438VE
Rank:
Trooper
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Regiment:
Special Service Battalion, S.A. Forces
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Date of Death:
1945-09-28
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Date of Birth:
1920-09-07
Age:
25
Cause of Death:
Died in Aircraft Accident, 28 (passengers: 24 crew: 4 - 9 died) crashed north of Broken Hill, in Douglas C-47 Dakota #6809
Additional
Information:
Son of Johannes David Hendrik De Bruin and Hester Jacoba Steyn, (formerly De Bruyn nee De Wet), of Campbell's Hope, P.O. Sunbeam, Kroonstad, Orange Free State. Born Grootkuil Dist, Vredefort, Transvaal. He was unmarried.
Commemoration
Country:
Zambia
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Cemetery:
NDOLA (KANSENSHI) CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
Plot 1. Row B. Coll. grave 4.

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