Service Details
Name:
 VAN GRAAN
Given Name:
 THOMAS RITCHIE
Initials:
 T R
Service No:
 238146V
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:
 1944-07-22
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Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Liberator B24J Mk VI #EW199, 7 crew (2 RAF), shot down after bombing the Fanto Oil Refinery at Padubice, Czechoslovakia
Additional
Information:
Son of Jan F. and Rachel J. van Graan, of Koppies, Orange Free State, South Africa; husband of Magrietha Aletta van Graan. B.A., LL.B.
Commemoration
Country:
 Austria
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Cemetery:
 KLAGENFURT WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave 5. D. 10-12.

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