Service Details
Name:
 VAN DER SPUY
Given Name:
 ROY DAVID MARTHINUS
Initials:
 R D M
Service No:
 205866V
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 34 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-08-28
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Date of Death 2:
 1944-08-29
Age:
 27
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Liberator B24J Mk VI #EW165, 7 crew (3 RAFVR), shot down by Luftwaffe night fighter after mining the River Danube near Belgrade, Hungary
Additional
Information:
Son of David and Vi van der Spuy, of Mowbray, Cape Town, South Africa. Born Hendon, Middlesex, England.
Commemoration
Country:
 Hungary
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Cemetery:
 BUDAPEST WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave I. D. 1-6.

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