Service Details
Name:
 MARAIS
Given Name:
 DOUGLAS THOMAS
Initials:
 D T
Service No:
 29062
Rank:
 Pupil Pilot
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 21 Air School
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Date of Death:
 1942-03-10
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Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Airspeed AS.10 Oxford Mk I/II #3546, collided with #1981, crashed at Tayfield ALG
Additional
Information:
Son of Jacob Jacobus Marais and Florence Helen Louisa (nee Moriarty) Marais, of East London. ***Have war diary extract
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Eastern Cape
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Cemetery:
 EAST LONDON (EAST BANK) CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Sec.11C. Grave 747W.

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