Service Details
Name:
 VOS
Given Name:
 ANDRIES PIETER
Initials:
 A P
Service No:
 206367
Rank:
 Air Sergeant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 15 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1942-05-04
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Age:
 38
Cause of Death:
 Died of exposure, Bleinheim Mk IV aircraft #Z7513, one of three aircraft that took off on a familiarization and practice mission, never to return. Crashed in bad visibility about 150 miles E of Kufra (Kufra disaster)
Additional
Information:
Son of Wilhelm Lambertus and Johanna Vos; husband of Johanna Christina Jacoba Vos, of Noorder Paarl, Cape Province, South Africa. Born Carnavon.
Commemoration
Country:
 Libya
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Cemetery:
 KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA
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Grave Reference:
 Coll. Grave 13. F. 12-19.

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