Service Details
Name:
 VAN HEERDEN
Given Name:
 ALWYN FRANCOIS
Initials:
 A F
Service No:
 216431
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 South African Railways and Harbours Brigade
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Date of Death:
 1942-11-28
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Date of Death 2:
 1942-11-29
Age:
 49
Cause of Death:
 Lost at sea on S. S. Nova Scotia, torpedoed and sunk by U-177. En route from Aden to Durban, South Africa. Carrying 6 passengers, 11 military and naval personnel, 134 South African guards and 765 Italian civil internees
Additional
Information:
Son of Pieter Willem and Anna Cecilia van Heerden; husband of Mary Adelaide (nee Carter) van Heerden, of Germiston, Transvaal.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Kwazulu Natal
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Cemetery:
 DURBAN (STELLAWOOD) CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Block F. Grave 341.

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