Service Details
Name:
 BOTHA
Given Name:
 EDUARD PRETORIUS
Initials:
 E P
Service No:
 232703V
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
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Regiment:
 Witwatersrand Rifles/Regiment de la Rey, S.A. Forces
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Unit:
 "B" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1944-06-16
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Date of Birth:
 1921-04-25
Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, received from machine gun fire in the area South East of Salci, Italy
Additional
Information:
Son of Jacobus Samuel and Else F. (nee Zorn) Botha, of Brooklyn, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. An accountant by trade and worked for the firm Barnes and Taylor in Pretoria prior to enlistment.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 BOLSENA WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 II, H, 14.

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