Service Details
Name:
 RAKOMA
Given Name:
 WILLIAM
Initials:
 W
Service No:
 N/6813
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 Native Military Corps, S.A. Forces
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Date of Death:
 1944-01-29
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Age:
 39
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, in hospital. 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 Jack and Elizabeth Rakoma, of Pietersburg, Transvaal, South Africa; husband of Salome Rakoma, of Pietersburg.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 BOLSENA WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 II, H, 10.

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