Service Details
Name:
 DU PRE
Given Name:
 KENNETH GEORGE
Initials:
 K G
Service No:
 102444V
Trade:
 W.Op./Air Gnr.
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 27 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1945-04-17
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Date of Birth:
 1921-04-04
Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, spun into ground during fighter affiliation near Gianaclis, in Vickers Warwick Mk V #PN754
Additional
Information:
Son of Jacobus Martinus du Pre and Cecilia Johanna du Pre; husband of Audrey du Pre, of Cape Town, South Africa. Commemoration stone in Pretoria (Rebecca Street) Cemetery. His brother also died in service
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 O. 161.

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