In Memory Of
LYNSKY, PATRICK JAMES
Service Details
Age:
37
Date of Birth:
1906-06-24
Service No:
SAP/196093
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit:
1
Regiment:
South African Police
Former Regiment:
South African Police Constable #12098
Date of Death:
1943-12-08
Cause of Death:
Died as a POW, whilst being loaded onto railway wagons to be transported to Germany, the rail yards at Aquila were bombed by USAF B-25 bombers. About 200 POWs were killed, all who were trapped in locked cattle cars.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Column 148.
Cemetery:
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
Country:
Egypt
Additional Information
Son of Patrick James and Anna Catharina Lynsky; husband of Elizabeth Mary Lynsky, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Born Adelaide, South Africa.
