In Memory Of

VAN BARKENHUIZEN, JAN JOHANNES

Service Details
Age:
 23
Date of Birth:
 1921-01-14
Service No:
 135347V
Rank:
 Private
Regiment:
 Witwatersrand Rifles/Regiment de la Rey, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
 1944-10-21
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, received 20 October in the vicinity of Colonia
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 I, C, 27.
Cemetery:
 CASTIGLIONE SOUTH AFRICAN CEMETERY
Country:
 Italy
Additional Information
Son of Mrs. H. F. Lampbrecht, of Norris Street, Rosettenville, Johannesburg, Transvaal. Son of Robert A. and H. F. van Barkenhuizen, of Rosettenville, Johannesburg, Transvaal. He enlisted in the Tank Corps in July 1940, and fraudulently enlisted in the R.L.I in October 1940 and then again enlisted the SAAF in April 1941.