In Memory Of

COETZEE, CHRISTIAAN WILHELMUS

Service Details
Age:
 35
Date of Birth:
 1906-02-02
Service No:
 61625
Rank:
 Corporal
Unit:
 1/2
Regiment:
 Field Force Battalion, S.A. Forces
Former Regiment:
 formerly South African Mounted Rifles
Date of Death:
 1941-02-19
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, whilst a POW. He was captured at El Sod on the 15 February but died in hospital from wounds received during a bombing attack by allied aircraft, 4 days later
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 2. G. 24.
Cemetery:
 NAIROBI WAR CEMETERY
Country:
 Kenya
Additional Information
Son of Willem Stephanus and Martha Jacobrena Coetzee (nee Potgieter), of P.O. Straatsdrift. Husband of Johanna Margaretha Frederika Coetzee (nee Denner), of Lotteringskop, District Zeerust, Western Transvaal. Born in Marico, Transvaal. He was a farmer. He had 2 children.