Service Details
Name:
SPRUYT
Given Name:
JOHANNES RETIEF MEIRING
Initials:
J R M
Service No:
542753V
Trade:
Pilot
Rank:
Lieutenant
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Regiment:
South African Air Force
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Unit:
31 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
1944-08-07
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Date of Death 2:
1944-08-08
Age:
26
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, 7 crew, shot down while attacking the Steinnämager aerodrome at Szombathely, Hungary, in Liberator B24J Mk VI #EW144
Additional
Information:
Son of Johannes and Esther Spruyt, of Parys, Orange Free State, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
Hungary
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Cemetery:
BUDAPEST WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
Coll. grave III. D. 1-7.

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