In Memory Of

VAN DER MERWE, BAREND JOHANNES

Service Details
Age:
34
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
C/304767
Rank:
Private
Regiment:
Cape Corps, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
1944-01-28
Cause of Death:
Killed whilst a POW. On 28 January 1944 the United States Air Force bombed a POW train on a bridge near Allerona, Italy. It was carrying Allied servicemen from PG Camp 54, Fara in Sabina, to Germany
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Column 156.
Cemetery:
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
Country:
Egypt
Additional Information
Son of Pieter and Anna van der Merwe; husband of Naomi Katrina van der Merwe, of Moorreesburg, Cape Province, South Africa.