Service Details
Name:
 UYS
Given Name:
 DIRK CORNELIUS
Initials:
 D C
Service No:
 47434V
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 34 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1945-04-04
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Date of Birth:
 1917-09-08
Age:
 27
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Liberator B.VI KK302, 8 crew (1 RAF), after returning from a bombing raid on the Brescia marshalling yards in Northern Italy, Liberator collided with an RAF Wellington bomber KL355 from 70 Sqdn while circling Celone airfield to land
Additional
Information:
Son of Hermanus Christiaan Steyn Uys and Jacoba Johanna Uys; husband of Carmel Theresa Uys, of Potgietersrust, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 BARI WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 XIII. B. 1.

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