Service Details
Name:
 VAN DER POEL
Given Name:
 BENJAMIN LAMBERTUS
Initials:
 B L
Service No:
 180915V
Rank:
 Corporal
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Regiment:
 Witwatersrand Rifles/Regiment de la Rey, S.A. Forces
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Date of Death:
 1944-11-15
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Date of Birth:
 1919-03-21
Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, received a shrapnel wound in his back on 20 October in the vicinity of Colonia and was admitted to hospital. He failed to respond to treatment and was placed on the Dangerous Injury list on 31 October. He died on the 15 November
Additional
Information:
Son of Cornelius A. and Maria E. van der Poel, of Witbank, Transvaal, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 AREZZO WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 IV. A. 11.

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