Service Details
Name:
 SCHOLTZ
Given Name:
 NEVILLE JOHN WINGROVE
Initials:
 N J W
Service No:
 160180
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Pilot Officer
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 44 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-06-22
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Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Lancaster ND552, Wesseling Raid, lost after an attack by German night fighters, it crashed in a Coal Mines site near Lanklaar, on an operation to bomb the oil refinery works at Wesseling along with 132 other Lancasters and Mosquitoes
Additional
Information:
Son of Vintcent James Scholtz and Holly Georgina Scholtz, of Que Que, Southern Rhodesia. On St. George's College War Memorial, Harare, Zimbabwe
Commemoration
Country:
 Belgium
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Locality:
 Dilsen-Stokkem, Limburg
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Cemetery:
 LANKLAAR COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave 1-7.

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