Service Details
Name:
 MARTENS
Given Name:
 JACOBUS JOSHUA FRANCOIS
Initials:
 J J F
Service No:
 1703
Rank:
 Staff Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Umvoti Mounted Rifles, S.A. Forces
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Date of Death:
 1944-01-28
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Age:
 31
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
Additional
Information:
Son of Johannes C. and Catherina E. Martens; husband of Olive M. Martens, of Durban, Natal, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Column 121.

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