Service Details
Name:
 VAN DER MERWE
Given Name:
 WILLEM JOHANNES
Initials:
 W J
Service No:
 21635
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 Regiment President Steyn, S.A. Forces
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Date of Death:
 1942-10-28
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Age:
 30
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Additional
Information:
Son of Willem Johannes and Anna Catharina van der Merwe, of Spuitfontein, Hanover, Cape Province. Husband of Sylvia van der Merwe, of Zastron, Orange Free State, South Africa. Born New Bethesda. A civil servant
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 III. D. 18.

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