Service Details
Name:
 UPTON
Given Name:
 WILLEM JOHANNES
Initials:
 W J
Service No:
 196677
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
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Regiment:
 South African Police
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Unit:
 2nd Bn.
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Former Regiment:
 South African Police Constable #12033
Date of Death:
 1945-05-10
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Age:
 38
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Douglas C-47 Dakota #6807, crashed Lake Victoria
Additional
Information:
Son of Johannes Lodewikus and Isabel Janse Upton; husband of Petronella Christina Susanna Upton, of East London. Born Queenstown. A police constable. ***Date of Death likely 11 May 1945
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Eastern Cape
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Cemetery:
 EAST LONDON (EAST BANK) CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Sec.11C. Grave 729W.

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