Service Details
Name:
PIENAAR
Given Name:
JOHANNES HENDRIK
Initials:
J H
Service No:
20553
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
South African Air Force
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Unit:
15 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
1942-05-04
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Age:
22
Cause of Death:
Died of exposure, one of three aircraft that took off on a familiarization and practice mission, never to return. Engine cut, lost height and crash landed near Kufra (Kufra disaster), in Bleinheim Mk IV aircraft #TT2252
Additional
Information:
Son of David Strauss Pienaar and Maria Magdalena Pienaar, of Petrusville, Cape Province, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
Libya
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Cemetery:
KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA
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Grave Reference:
13. F. 20.

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