Service Details
Name:
 BOTHA
Given Name:
 CHRISTIAN MAURITZ
Initials:
 C M
Service No:
 542549V
Trade:
 Observer
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 26 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-10-16
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Date of Birth:
 1912-11-03
Age:
 31
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Vickers Wellington Mk XI #MP595, failed to recover from dive, off coast of West Africa
Additional
Information:
Son of Christian Mauritz Botha and Maria Elizabeth Botha; husband of Enid Nichol Botha, of Duiwelskloof Station, Northern Transvaal.
Commemoration
Country:
 Malta
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Cemetery:
 MALTA MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 17, Column 1.

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