Service Details
Name:
 FOURIE
Given Name:
 WILLIAM HENDRIK BOSHOFF
Initials:
 W H B
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Horse
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Unit:
 5th
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Unit 2:
 Machine Gun Section
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Date of Death:
 1916-09-07
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Date of Birth:
 1879-09-23
Age:
 36
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Decorations:
 Mentioned in Despatches
Citations:
 LG Sup 8 February 1917 vol 29933 pg 1354 - "For meritorious service in the field in East Africa"
Additional
Information:
Son of Johannes Hendrikus and Christina Catarina (nee Boshoff) Fourie, of Walter St., Fellside, Johannesburg. Commemoration stone in Pretoria (Rebecca Street) Cemetery
Commemoration
Country:
 Tanzania
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Cemetery:
 MOROGORO CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 IV. E. 7.

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